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Word: convert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson was in the bonus early in both halves, but just couldn't convert the big advantage into points...

Author: By M.d. Stankiewicz, | Title: No Charity | 3/9/1988 | See Source »

...absolution of sorts. Last week two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that some fat people, rather than being slothful or gluttonous, have an inborn predisposition to gain weight. Reason: instead of burning off excess calories as others do, obese bodies are programmed to convert them into fat. Thus, while fat people may eat the same amount of food as thinner people do, they gain more weight. Moreover, their tendency to get fat is probably hereditary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Is Losing Weight a Losing Battle? | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Walsh's private efforts in 1985 to help Patrick Sullivan convert and sell two condominiums to a brother and a sister while avoiding a Rent Control Board regulation were "at best improper," said Gardner...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Tenant Group May Sue Walsh | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

Shultz said the negotiators would have until his meeting in Washington with. Shevardnadze to put together three draft documents dealing with verification procedures, ways to eliminate or convert the weapons and methods to help inspectors observe treaty compliance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Superpowers to Complete Arms Treaty | 2/23/1988 | See Source »

Tenants and officials said that if HRI buys the building, it may eventually convert it to condominiums under a limited equity co-op plan that would make the tenants co-owners. Such an arrangment would require the consent of 80 percent of the tenants...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: University to Buy Building, Then Sell to Non-Profit Firm | 2/16/1988 | See Source »

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