Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have also spurned an offer for "accelerated obsolescence" of the Pershing IAs that would allow them to remain in West Germany until 1992, when an accord would go into effect. In a significant concession, Washington also agreed to destroy its ground-based cruise missiles in West Germany rather than convert them to sea- launched weapons stationed in the Atlantic Ocean...
...innovations, the Soviet leader has hardly, at 56, become a convert to Western-style democracy. He rose to power through the Communist hierarchy and deeply believes in the tenets of Marx and Lenin. His goal is not to scrap that system but to save it from permanent economic decline through a series of bold, pragmatic measures. As he told a gathering of editors and propagandists in Moscow on July 10: "We intend to make socialism stronger, not replace it with another system...
Future plans will ease the crowding, although deprive students of the room and maid-service. Carleton said the school plans eventually to convert B.U.'s recent acquisition, the Commonwealth Armory, into recreational facilities, below-grade parking and dormitories that would add some 1600 to 1700 bedspaces. More Beds...
...sample viewers are asked to identify themselves when they watch TV by punching digits on a specially programmed, remote channel control, some experts predict the new system will give more reliable readings than the usual methods. The threat of this new technology from AGB hastened Nielsen's decision to convert to a system of people-meter ratings by September. Nielsen has already put the new machines in 2,000 homes, and now publishes people-meter ratings as well as its usual figures...
...Biden traveled the country last week, he was trailed by doubts about his ability to convert paper assets to real ones. His overtures to the new generation should have helped him attract support from Gary Hart's ruined campaign, but so far few voters have followed. Some party workers are put off by Biden's verbal excesses. Says an Iowa activist whom Biden has unsuccessfully courted: "He might just talk himself out of the nomination...