Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the winter, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger began urging oil-fired utilities and factories to convert not to coal but to natural gas. This was to have been only a short-term move to help soak up the gas glut, but it created the misleading impression that coal was not the Administration's favorite fuel after all. Asserts Jim Larson, president of Energy Fuels Corp., Colorado's largest coal producer: "There is a simple lack of leadership. From where I sit, you just have to wonder what in hell is going on back there in Washington." The industry...
Ross and other rent control proponents are also supporting a bill, filed by councilor and state representative Saundra Graham, that would tighten up Cambridge's present rent control law by prohibiting owners from evicting tenants in order to convert their apartments into condominiums...
...five years, $50 million in expenses and submission of more than 700 permits and applications, the company, which is part owned by British Petroleum, was abandoning its ill-starred effort to launch a $1 billion project that would have been of value to the entire nation. Sohio wanted to convert an unused 700-mile natural-gas pipeline to move Alaskan oil from Long Beach, Calif, to Midland, Texas, for further delivery to the energy-hungry Midwest...
Alas, poor Otto! His convert was blown. Sheraton and Prial identified the reclusive Paul Bocuse of the Poconos as one "Allen Lieb." (Actually, he spells it Alan.) As for the dishes he served these wisepersons from the city, Sheraton's comments ranged from "passable" to "truly awful," with a small grating of praise for a delicate fish pâté and a cake or two. Her summation: "Allen Lieb, sincere and well intentioned though he may be, has a long way to go both in developing his own palate for seasoning and combining ingredients, and mastering basic cooking...
Though most apartments are being converted to condominiums, cooperatives traditionally have been much more popular in New York City. In a fairly typical example for that city, a couple bought a seven-room co-op on Manhattan's Upper West Side for $16,000 when the building was converted five years ago; last summer they sold it for $75,000. From 1974 to 1978, the average price per room in New York City luxury buildings jumped from $11,000 to $19,000. In that four-year period, the number of applications filed with New York officials to convert apartment...