Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professional workers. There are now fewer than 1,000 trained administrators and only 15 medical doctors for a population of 8.5 million people. Machel, 42, a onetime medical orderly who led the struggle for independence and became the country's first President, set about at breakneck pace to convert Mozambique into what he calls "Africa's first Marxist state." All land was nationalized. The large colonial plantations, which supported more than half of the population, were organized into collective farms. But, reports one visitor, "nobody can agree on how they are to be run, so production from...
...increase in the number of seniors in that class will force Lowell to convert many of its senior singles into doubles, Schimmel said...
After the victory, Ford's top lieutenants launched a low-key campaign around the country to convert undecided and pro-Reagan state and county chairmen. Somewhat lamely, Acting Campaign Chief Stuart Spencer insisted: "We're not pressuring them. We're just taking their temperature, seeing where they stand." Reagan's only motive for staying in after North Carolina would seem to be to keep Ford hewing to the right and to influence the party platform, the choice of Cabinet officers and the vice presidential nominee-perhaps Reagan himself, although Ford would seem to gain nothing from...
...main problem with the book of Godspell is that the New Testament parables, linked though they are to the archetypal comic myth, are not themselves intrinsically funny. To convert dogma into entertainment, it's up to the director to make them so. Embellishing the original script with a few Harvard touches, Manulis marches his cast through a series of mimes, impressions and slapstick sequences in a laudable effort to compensate for the thinness of the material...
...exceedingly ambitious plans for developing the West. The Northern Great Plains alone is expected to produce 977 million tons annually by the end of this century. At that time, the region should have 64 mines exporting coal, 25 new coal-fired electric power plants and 41 plants to convert coal into natural gas. In the Four Corners area where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado meet, another 14 generating stations are planned to burn coal from nearby mines. Four are already built, sending electricity by wire to consumers as distant as Los Angeles and El Paso-a cheaper and less...