Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic Party. The monetarists, on the other hand, tend to identify with Republicans. The ensuing clash of philosophies thus involves high policy, politics and the fervor of a religious schism. Nixon's half-successful jawboning against steel-price increases suggests that Friedman may have lost his most illustrious convert. After his recently televised "conversation," the President remarked casually to a startled TV commentator: "I am now a Keynesian...
...next problem for scientists to solve is to convert Li's laboratory accomplishment into a production-line success. The most optimistic estimate is that it will take three years...
...would like to rent the lowest level, a semi-basement. There are a lounge and several storage rooms, which we hope to convert into crash pads. We need space for about 30 persons during the winter and 100 in the summer," he said...
...Guevara went to Bolivia and tried to launch a similar movement from the sparsely populated hinterlands. Too late, Che discovered that the country's peasants were more likely to betray than to befriend guerrilla fighters. Unable to count on aid from the people he was hoping to convert, Che was trapped and later executed by Bolivian soldiers...
Grand Ole Opry time? Shucks no. Just a new Apple LP by that latest convert to the Nashville Sound, Ringo Starr of the Beatles. Called Beaucoups of Blues, it features Drummer Ringo as the singer of twelve mostly sorrowful country ballads that are a far and dusty cry from Hey Jude, Get Back or even Octopus's Garden...