Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them from what they see as despotic rule. The independent-minded son of a minor Bihar state official, Narayan at the age of 19 used a $600 wedding gift to set off alone to the U.S., where he studied at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin and became a convert to Communism. Returning to India, he became deeply involved with Gandhi and Nehru in the independence movement. Still, he was not an advocate of Gandhi's principles of nonviolence and organized a guerrilla force to disrupt rails and communications and foment strikes and riots...
...atom are "the major candidates for meeting energy needs of the future." If the approach ERDA espouses is successful, the agency forecasts that by the year 2000 the U.S. will have 450 nuclear generating plants (current total: 55) and anywhere from 200 to 400 plants that convert solar power to electricity. As the oil-scarce 21st century arrives, ERDA says, the U.S. will be on the way to a virtually all-electric country, with 10-15 million solar-heated homes and 15 million electric cars weaving among the remaining gas guzzlers on the highways...
...until three months later that the S.L.A. achieved its bizarre notoriety by kidnaping Patricia Hearst, who became a convert and fellow fugitive. Meanwhile, two S.L.A. members named Russell Little, a former philosophy student, and Joseph Remiro, a Viet Nam veteran, were arrested and eventually charged with the Foster murder...
...return for this partial surrender of home rule, the money spigot has been turned on again. Big Mac is empowered to convert up to $3 billion in short-term debt into long-term bonds. The new bonds will be backed by some $1 billion in revenues from the sales tax and stock-transfer tax. This arrangement is expected to reassure investors who were frightened away from city offerings...
...week, New York's immediate financial fate was still in doubt. State and city officials were bitterly wrangling over the powers to be given to the proposed Municipal Assistance Corporation (dubbed "Big Mac"), which would attempt to convert the city's short-term debt into long-term bonds. The banking community insisted that Big Mac should exercise tight control over the city's short-term borrowing and receive all city sales tax revenue so as to make sure that the bonds it issued would be repaid. City officials balked at such a surrender of their fiscal authority...