Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Asians' plight has long concerned Ronald Bates, 57, a fourth-generation Australian who has managed to avoid speaking Strine himself, but knows just how confusing it can be. As a Sydney court stenographer, Bates has to decipher the lingo and convert it into shorthand symbols at the rate of 200 words a minute. "Thank God I'm a professional phoneticist," he says. "Otherwise, I wouldn't know what the hell half the witnesses and lawyers I have to record were talking about most of the time...
Carry It On is not only a love story. The Harrises give the film considerable ideological intensity. Even those who violently disagree with them will find their conversation refreshingly free of cant and full of infectious urgency. The movie may not convert doubters, but it may well make them turn their doubt, however briefly, upon themselves...
...There is a limit to how much you can proselytize. After a certain point, you simply have to assume that parents are educated, intelligent people able to make reasoned decisions. Your task isn't to convert everyone to uniform thinking, but rather to provide the insights by which different points of view can be judged on their merits...
...adjusting its planting and harvesting schedule, the company intends to shift as many part-timers as possible to full-time status. Instead of being paid piecework rates, they will collect hourly wages plus production bonuses. By using these incentives to raise productivity, Austin hopes to convert 200 workers to full-time status next year; the plan is for two-thirds of the harvesting employees to be on full-time status with all benefits in five to seven years...
...Alain Geismar, 26, advised that they make it a "hot summer for the bourgeoisie." Shortly before he was hauled off to jail for inciting riots, Geismar made a tape recording in which he urged his comrades to camp in the gardens of private villas, picnic on golf greens and convert gambling casinos into nurseries for poor children...