Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After almost a decade of complaints, Lamont Library will convert to a more modern classification system this summer, a change that will force the library to close for the summer's duration...
SOLAR ENERGY. Rooftop solar stoves, used to heat water, are found in Australia, Israel and Japan as well as in some areas of the U.S. Scientists now want to convert sunlight into electricity -a much more difficult task. One technique, proposed by Aden and Marjorie Meinel, a man-and-wife team of scientists at the University of Arizona, involves spreading a "solar farm," consisting of piping containing a mixture of chemicals, over 25 sq. mi. of desert. Heated by the sun, the mix would be used to make steam, which would power turbines capable of producing some 1,000 megawatts...
...Santore may lie, Hugo corrects him and Santore must acknowledge the truth of the accusations: He is not a simple AID (Agency for International Development) official whose job is it to improve communications and traffic control for the police: he is the local director of the American effort to convert police forces the world over into instruments of oppression and official violence against those whom they claim to protect...
...Jesuits rode full gallop into their new assignments: convert the heathen, reconvert Protestant Europe. Francis Xavier hopscotched from India to Southeast Asia to Japan, a country that had never before heard the Christian message. More than any others, the Society of Jesus stemmed, and sometimes reversed, the tide of Protestantism in France, the Low Countries and Central Europe. When Ignatius died in 1556, his order was nearly 1,000 strong and had dispatched its apostles to four continents...
...ever scarcer poverty funds among the lower class ethnic neighborhoods should provide fodder for the campaign. Landlords may unite behind one or more candidates in an effort to overthrow the city's controversial rent control law. Some candidates may espouse or oppose the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority's plan to convert Kendall Square into a commercial district in order to woo business or working class interests respectively. Cambridge's Plan E reform system of government and its complex proportional representation method of voting, which Independents and conservatives claim has worked against them in the past, could again be an issue this...