Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Princeton recorded one of its biggestvictories ever. With the score tied at 4-4,Princeton number five man Nick Kourides, an agiletennis convert with deep strokes, battledHarvard's Steve Simpson before a packed gallery onthe number 10 court...
Jack Kemp, the Boy Scout of supply-side economics, hates to speak ill of others. Like the "good shepherd" he so often cites, Kemp wants to convert both foe and friend to his vision of boundless growth through tax cuts and monetary reform. But so far his gauzy optimism has proved more boring than inspirational to voters; for months, he has idled near the bottom of the polls. Last week Pollyanna began to look more like Cruella De Ville: Kemp unleashed an uncharacteristically hard-nosed campaign that managed to rattle both George Bush and Bob Dole. In so doing...
...reforms, known as perestroika, or restructuring. Leave it to a pair of American capitalists to take his words to heart. San Francisco Businessman John Lee Hudson and his wife Shana, who lost $30,000 trying to market an Ollie North doll after the Iran-contra hearings, plan to convert their leftover inventory into the likeness of the Soviet leader...
...believe that my students realized this aim by having to take responsibility for their own part in the entire process invovlved in something as elementary as feeding oneself. It was my wish that the students could then go on to convert the negative aspect of this experience into a positive and productive understanding of the whole. They would then be able to reinforce this positive understanding with a sense of wonder and imagination when creating a statement in sculpture. Ritsuko Taho Visual and Environmental Studies Department
...Greg made an incredible effort to convert me,but for his own sake, not mine. He did it to gethimself to heaven, and once it became clear that Iwasn't going to buy it he never called me again."The Boston Garden, site of The Church'sSunday meetings...