Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resolve when the status quo was restored but proceeded to construct on this foundation further peaceful links with the other side (including the nuclear test-ban treaty and hot line). Let us hope that President Ford, who has been admirably restrained in his rhetoric about the Mayaguez, can also convert this experience with confrontation into a new effort for cooperation...
...Firm Evidence. On the more mundane penny and pound level, the pro and con arguments seem to consist, as Tory Shadow Foreign Secretary Reginald Maudling put it, "of diametrically opposed conclusions drawn from the same inadequate facts." Pro-Marketeers, rather indifferently led by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, himself a convert to that position, argue that continued membership will lead to more jobs and lower food prices for Britons. Anti-Marketeers on both far right and far left say that it will lead to fewer jobs and higher food prices. And an exhaustive study by the National Institute for Economic...
...National Weather Service has developed plans to convert weather forecasting to metric units (wind velocities in k.p.h., temperatures in Celsius, etc.) when the SI bill becomes law. Boston Weathercaster Don Kent already gives temperatures in both systems. One day last week, for example, he reported that the "temperature in Boston is 21° Celsius or 70° Fahrenheit...
...Christian Democrats have yet to convert the S.D.P.'s problems to their own profit. Under the lackluster leadership of Helmut Kohl, the C.D.U. has produced no clear platform, economic proposals or solutions of its own. Moreover, Kohl's chief rival for party leadership, the demagogic Bavarian conservative Franz-Josef Strauss, frightens most West Germans even more than the left-wing Jusos of the S.D.P...
...creditors can ill afford to force him under because they would lose too much in the process. For example, if oil-rich Arabs started withdrawing their huge deposits from London, the pound would skid much further, thus diminishing the value of the Arabs' sterling holdings before they could convert them to some other currency. But the dependence on foreign money is not only humiliating for the nation that was once the world's greatest financial power, it is risky in the extreme...