Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's survival prospects flattened out somewhat when Charles W. Colson, the President's former counsel and chief White House political operative, was sentenced to prison for obstruction of justice-and said in court that he had committed the crime on direct orders from Nixon. A recent convert to evangelical Christianity, Colson seemed bent on telling the truth to the House Judiciary Committee and its impeachment investigators. Perhaps only Nixon and Colson know how damaging that may prove to the President...
Anyone trying to convert the bases to civilian use must plow through a jungle of red tape. The Federal Government retains ownership of the base land and buildings until somebody else takes them over, and it reserves the right to determine the "best use" of them-a decision in which as many as eight federal agencies may get involved. Under some circumstances, the Federal Government will turn over base property free for use as parklands or airports. But if a state, local community or private company wants to use part of a base for industrial purposes, it must...
...only nonpolluting but also practical for downtown transportation-three of the Witkars occupy the space taken by a standard-sized European sedan-and it costs less than half as much as a taxi for the average trip. Next, Inventor Schimmelpennink, something of a Dutch Don Quixote, hopes to convert some abandoned windmills so his white chargers can be charged up by nonpolluting energy sources...
...year-old lawyer, is to become chairman of Lockheed as well, thus heading two companies that had total 1973 sales of almost $5 billion; Lockheed Chairman Daniel J. Haughton, 62, would step down to vice chairman. Other terms, some still subject to revision: major banks are being asked to convert $275 million in loans to Lockheed into preferred stock in the company and to extend $375 million in additional credit to Lockheed at an initial fire-sale interest rate of 4%. Most troublesome is the condition that airlines will have to convert options on 45 Lockheed TriStar jetliners to firm...
...slalom course, on which the skier executes all types of turns around markers set up in the snow. The Harrow-and Oxford-educated sportsman wrote a galaxy of volumes on skiing and such subjects as Communism, which he abhorred, mountaineering, travel and Catholicism, to which he was a zealous convert...