Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gopher. Colonies of these tiny industrious burrowers have helped mix the nutrient-poor ash and pumice with rich, pre-eruptive soil, creating a more hospitable turf for windblown seeds. Deer mice, ants and beetles have also assisted in the regeneration of the soil. Flowering lupine, with root nodules that convert nitrogen into compounds necessary for plant growth, has seized a foothold on the pumice plain, along with the ubiquitous fireweed and timothy grass...
Energia's debut may push the balance of space power decisively into Soviet hands. With it, Moscow can easily launch its own shuttle. The Soviets can send up large modules to Mir to convert it into a full-fledged research and manufacturing station or send them into orbit to be assembled as a manned interplanetary ship. And they now have the muscle to do what the Pentagon cannot for the foreseeable future: orbit antisatellite and antimissile laser and particle-beam weapons for Star Wars-like battle stations in outer space...
Though birding is a hobby, watchers are quickly drawn toward environmental issues. DDT nearly wiped out the osprey and the peregrine falcon. On April 19, the last California condor was taken from the wild. "We have to convert interest in birds into backing for conservation," says Arnold Brown of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. "It's one thing to admire a loon and another to realize that it's our oldest bird, 70 million years old, and in trouble from acid rain...
...layoff definitely hurt us," said Thomas, who still led Detroit with 18 points and 10 assists. "We did basically everything we wanted to do but convert ... I had a lot of shots, easy shots. I just couldn't hit them...
That is true at the microscopic as well as the telescopic level. Michael Rossmann, who modeled the common-cold virus, became a convert to computer graphics after Purdue acquired its first graphics machine. Compared with a physical model, he says, "the computer is much more versatile. We can zoom in as close as we like; we can look at much more complicated structures. We can display the model on all sides and in different colors." In the old days he would often mark different atoms in his brass models with colored yarn -- which kept falling off. "The old methodology seems...