Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resist intellectual hooliganism and muddleheadedness of any sort. He lived through a decade in which the intelligentsia rampaged through the streets of Europe, hurling their ideas like rocks and firebombs through the windows of every institution on the continent; yet he seems never to have felt the temptation to convert his cleverness into a weapon. This is his chief gift to his readers. To understand how he came by it, we must follow the evolution of his political consciousness...
...Judges could manage only one run off Weissant in five innings, and it came in the fourth on back-to-back singles and a fielder's choice. Art Serrano and McGugan were unable to convert a ground ball into a double play, and on the next identical play a questionable call at first cost Weissant his shutout...
...Republican National Convention. "I liked the hubbub," he says. "It seemed like fun." Jody displayed a flair for leadership at Ayrshire High School, where he was an honor student, manager of the baseball and basketball teams, student council president (during which term he waged a successful campaign to convert one of the classrooms into a student lounge) and school janitor. He suffered his first political setback his senior year, when he lost his bid for the class presidency...
...Last year close to 3,000,000 Americans visited Europe, and travel-industry leaders expect about a 10% gain this year. For those who do go, moneymen offer some advice for stretching dollars. First, carry traveler's checks, which command a better exchange rate than cash does. Second, convert money at banks, which pay more for dollars than hotels do. Finally, pay immediately for foreign purchases rather than charge them. If the value of the dollar weakens further, the bill, when finally presented, may well be higher than expected...
...will no doubt feel safer issuing invoices in one of their own currencies, which can fluctuate only half as much as the dollar. Even a spokesman for the East German government declared that his country is "no longer interested" in trade deals set in dollars. Multinational corporations will probably convert more of their dollar holdings into Common Market currencies. Such selling of the dollar may tend to reduce its price in world money markets...