Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central aim of the new strategy is to improve the PLO's image in the West and convert sympathy for the Palestinian rebellion into political gain...
...myth had emerged from the collective unconscious, taken the form of a slavering shadow and made a murderous foray against the ordinary order of things. People simply did not want to believe it. The police, the public, the press kept trying to convert resonant mystery into conventional tabloid sordidness. The Chamberlains were devout Seventh-Day Adventists, and, since most people know little about that faith, wild rumors that it encouraged ritual murder soon surfaced. Worse, Lindy refused to play the archetypal role that this drama called for. She would not grieve hysterically for the reporters. Throughout her ordeal...
Department members will move into about two dozen spaces located at 8 Prescott St., a building across from the Freshman Union, said Director of the Office of Physical Operations for FAS Michael E. Williams. He said the University spent about $1 million to convert the former freshman dormitory into faculty offices...
...world. Instead of using the no-nonsense metric system, Britons measured their cricket pitches in chains (22 yds.), their horse races in furlongs (220 yds.), their meat in pounds and their beer in pints. Bowing to a proposal of the European Community, however, the British have tentatively agreed to convert their systems to metric, starting...
...committee opposed measures calling onmilitary firms to diversify and convert theiroperations to civilian production; onmanufacturers to develop cleanup plans forhazardous waste; on Chase Manhattan Bank toexplain its Third World loans in light of theworld debt crisis; and on energy firms to cancelplans for nuclear plants...