Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faulkner is one of the wiliest practitioners of Irish politics, and a fairly recent convert to the moderates. As Prime Minister in 1971, he took a tough line against the Irish Republican Army, which resulted in harsh crackdowns on the Catholic community and the ruthless policy of interning suspected terrorists. Those tactics led to a complete breakdown in security and the assumption of direct rule by Britain. Last spring, however, Faulkner campaigned for a new constitution calling for power-sharing between the majority Protestants and minority Catholics. The measure passed, and led to the formation of an eleven-man coalition...
Another clue to schizophrenia, says Dr. Seymour Kety, chief of the psychiatric research laboratories at Massachusetts General Hospital, lies in the discovery of an enzyme in the brains of both animals and man that can convert normal brain chemicals like tryptamine to dimethyltryptamine, a well-known hallucinogen. Kety and other scientists speculate that in schizophrenics such a process may be out of control...
...fiery speech did about as much good as halftime pep talks usually do; despite free Green Stamps, and cut-price kits allowing customers to convert their cars to burn propane gas, Worthington's Dodge Boys sold only ten cars that day v. forty on a normal Saturday...
...next step is to add a new device to 1975-model cars that will be sold in California and wherever else the automakers wish. According to GM, this "catalytic converter" will improve gas mileage by up to 13% and make cars perform as well as in the good old days. Shaped like a muffler and attached to the exhaust system, it will also convert hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide into water vapor and other harmless compounds...
Hans Guggenheim, professor of Architecture at MIT, Wiedemann and four MIT graduate students will convert granaries of the drought-stricken Dogon tribe into water storage tanks...