Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under heavy political pressure, the Ford Administration set out about six weeks ago to convert the Soviet Union from an in-and-out, market-disrupting buyer of U.S. grain to a steady customer that makes regular purchases in agreed-on amounts. Last week in Moscow, U.S. and Soviet negotiators signed a five-year agreement that should accomplish that goal and lessen the inflationary impact of future Soviet buying by enabling markets to anticipate it. In contrast to the furious criticism that has greeted past U.S. grain sales to the Soviets, this deal satisfied almost everyone except American farmers who wanted...
...immediate reason for the rally, Klug said, was a recent decision by Russo to convert a 12 family house at 308 Brookline St. into six luxury condominiums...
...that the Administration might be wavering. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller recommended that Congress consider creating a "temporary bridge" to relieve the financial pressures on the city while it takes steps to win back investors' confidence. He gave no details but indicated that the bridge might somehow aim to help convert the city's $4.9 billion in short-term debt into long-term bonds...
...marry neither a non-Jew nor a convert who does not meet halakhic standards (thus, according to the Orthodox, excluding those proselytized by Reform and Conservative Judaism, neither of which they recognize...
...mamzer (generally, a person born as a result of incest or a liaison between a married woman and someone other than her husband) can marry only another mamzer or a convert...