Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colonists, who come from earlier settlements in Mexico, include both soldiers and priests; their plan is not just to subdue the Indians but to convert them to Catholicism. This is not always successful. Only last November a band of Indians attacked the mission at San Diego and killed three settlers. At the Bay of San Francisco, however, Missionary Father Francisco Paldu reports that the colonists so far have been "well received by all the heathen whom we met. They brought their gifts of mussels and wild seeds, which were reciprocated with beads... And they were astonished at the cattle, which...
...must decide whether to challenge Carter there by picking a running mate like Howard Baker or William Brock, the two attractive Tennessee Senators, or perhaps the glamorous John Connally. The Texan dwarfs the two Senators as a campaigner, but he burdens Ford with his wheeler-dealer reputation. As a convert from the Democrats, he is now seen as a political turncoat...
...have enough dollars. So McDonnell Douglas agreed to help by marketing Yugoslavian goods, including hams, in the U.S. For years thereafter, the standing joke in the company's executive dining room was: "Here come the rest of those Yugoslavian hams." Oil, presumably, would be easier to convert to cash...
...same period in 1975. A $2.95 paperback CB dictionary has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. "CB Land," as enthusiasts call it, is served by a babel of newspapers, magazines, thousands of clubs and a lobby in Washington. The cult's most celebrated recent convert after Betty Ford is Snoopy, who has found solace with CB in the Peanuts strip...
Last week in Atlanta, Lockheed officials met for the first time this year with representatives of all 24 of the company's lending banks. The bankers have agreed to cancel $50 million of the debt, in return for warrants to buy Lockheed preferred stock. Lockheed wants them to convert even more loans into stock or warrants-but is wary of issuing too many new shares that would dilute the equity of stockholders. A compromise is likely by summer: the banks would lose heavily if the inability to repay loans pushed Lockheed into bankruptcy, and Lockheed so badly needs...