Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although nothing that drastic is planned in the U.S., the Nixon Administration does intend to convert the present voluntary ban on Sunday gasoline sales into a mandatory prohibition once Congress passes the necessary legislation. So the economic and social effects of the European bans may offer a preview of the American future-distorted somewhat by the fact that Europe is far less dependent on the car than the U.S. is; many more Europeans than Americans have access to cheap, safe, clean and ubiquitous public transportation...
...unfortunate handicap, we have trouble feeling convinced when someone has a major life-transforming experience with no more warning, motivation or inducement than a wistful look or a quick crosslegged gaze into the horizon. Siddhartha and his friends, wherever they go, seem to "learn" with inordinate alacrity--they will convert immediately, throwing themselves at the feet of and dedicating their lives to someone they have known for all of 30 seconds...
Tomiak took his own rebound and stuffed it past a fallen Murray after 5:07 had elapsed. The Crimson had a few good chances on Walker, but as in the first period Harvard could not convert...
...long ago, Mr. Nixon said that the tapes were defective because the administration did not spend enough for a sophisticated system--the same administration that spent more than enough to convert San Clemente into the Taj Mahal. If the country believes that excuse, or takes the tapes as surely accurate, or accepts the myth that the tapes alone can determine Mr. Nixon's guilt or innocence, then we will have a resounding answer to a twenty-year-old question: "Would you buy a used car from this man?" The answer will be that a majority of the American people would...
...forcing prices up. Some 6,000,000 bales of U.S. cotton, no less than 45% of this year's crop, will be sent abroad. The Japanese have bought about 1,800,000 bales, 2½ times their normal purchase. The U.S. Government no longer permits the Japanese to convert their huge hoard of dollars into gold, and so they are moving their money instead into such commodities as soybeans, wheat, shrimp-and cotton. In addition, China, hit by a bad crop, is buying unexpectedly large amounts of American cotton-700,000 bales this year...