Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Landmarks Commission, after a six-month campaign by historians and a preservation group, granted landmark status to the interior of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, blocking the Jesuits' plans to convert the church to offices and sleeping quarters as part of a consolidation of the order's headquarters...
...outdoor advertising industry. The huge, hand-painted icons often take a month to produce, sometimes depict faces inaccurately, and can be awkward to move. But now two California manufacturers have shown that turning out big pictures can be child's play. Los Angeles-based Metromedia Technologies uses computers to convert photos or other artwork into billboards up to 17 ft. by 54 ft. within just six hours. Another company, Torrance-based Computer Image Systems, is creating a 41-ft. portrait of Liza Minnelli that will rise this week over New York's Palace Theater...
...some fear that their own historic district may soon be subject to alterations that could send it the way of the Nehru jacket. A zoning change before Britain's Environment Secretary would eliminate the distinction between offices and light industry. The tailors fear that once landlords realized they could convert Savile Row's shops from light-industry status into office space, rents would quadruple and many shops in the 140- year-old district would be forced to close...
Reports of financial and sexual excesses by fallen TV Preacher Jim Bakker. Controversy over a heroic Jewish convert to Catholicism...
...recent housing crisis in Cambridge has threatened many low income residents with eviction, as some landlords try to convert rent controlled properties into more profitable condominiums, panel members said...