Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because of expansion beyond the University's means or intent to build new housing. More intensive use of present room space by introducing more bunk beds is a suggestion favored only by administrative types who never live in dorms. Another idea proposed by pack-'em-in engineers are to convert common space in the House to single rooms. They cast longing glances at living rooms and party rooms, not realising their importance to House life. But the aim is not to cram as many students as possible into a limited area. Instead it is to provide the most salutary physical...
Such conclusions would perhaps not be surprising from a group organized by a former leader of the House of Lords, a Roman Catholic convert and one of 24 knights companions of the Order of the Garter (motto: "Evil to him who evil thinks"). But Lord Longford is also a longtime socialist who helped design the British welfare state, a self-styled "fellow-traveling member of Women's Lib" and the first member of the House of Lords to speak in favor of legalizing private adult homosexual acts. Longford and the bishops, social scientists, housewives, educators, pop stars and writers...
...face a perplexing $60 billion question. That is the total of dollars held by foreign central banks as a form of claims against the U.S. This money has been moving back and forth from one bank to another helping to incite repeated "dollar crises." Foreign bankers have wanted to convert many of those dollars into U.S. gold, but they have been forbidden to do so ever since President Nixon cut America's tie to gold in August 1971. That act, says Treasury Secretary George Shultz a little smugly, "freed us to follow the domestic policies that we think...
...tested more severely than against MIT, played well under some pressure all afternoon. Although unable to mount many serious offensive threats in the first half. Williams came back in the later stages of the game to pressure Harvard's new diagonal defense, but the Ephman were unable to convert their scoring opportunities. "They just couldn't finish," defenseman Rich Cuita said...
...major reorganization move last month Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) dropped its contract agreement with Gordon Linen Service, the final step in a year-old plan to convert the line a division into a completely HSA run venture...