Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...therefore tend to use them. Bernard Kummel, professor of Geology, who lists his "History of the Earth," the country's leading textbook on physical geology as the primary source for his students in Geology 18, says, "I'm a missionary--I had a goal. I'm trying to convert the world to my religion through the book. So if they read it, God bless 'em. If they don't, what the hell...
...reader of The Poor Mouth will convert to Gaeligorism) we owe this Irish luck to the growing influence of the Flann O'Brien cult, though Flann had little to do with this book of Nolan's. The Irish have known Flann, Myles, and Nolan for a long time, but though more Ph.D. dissertations have been written on Flann O'Brien since O'Nolan's death in '66 than were written on Joyce in the first ten years after his death, the reading public in this country rarely encounters O'Brien's four English novels: At Swim-Two-Birds...
Slow Alternatives. At the same time, development of alternative fuel sources seems to be moving very slowly. Nuclear plants now generate about 9% of the nation's electric power, up from 4.5% in 1973. But coal, despite a drive to convert oil-and gas-fired plants to it, still supplies well under 50% of the country's electricity needs. Other energy sources-solar power, shale oil-remain drawing-board daydreams. By contrast, the Japanese, who are much more dependent on foreign oil than the U.S. is, have sharply stepped up work on such alternatives as nuclear power (twelve...
...Whim. Summa will need all the solidarity it can manage. The company faces a number of problems, including its only marginally successful casinos and a lawsuit involving Air West, the airline Hughes purchased in 1968. Most urgently, the company must convert itself from being an old man's whim into a real moneymaker. If the Lummis-Summa ploy to escape inheritance taxes fails, the company will be forced to pay an estimated $750 million to the Federal Government...
However, as the era of capitalism dawned two centuries ago, the profit motive found an able defender. In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued that profits are the legitimate return for risk and effort and that the "Invisible Hand" of market forces would convert private greed into public benefits. A century later, Karl Marx was not so sure. Arguing the opposite view, he asserted that labor, not capital, was the essential ingredient that added value to goods or raw materials in the manufacturing process. Thus, in his view, profit was the "surplus value" that the capitalist unjustifiably tacked...