Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thus crack U.S. codes and read American diplomatic cables throughout the world. Moreover, inspections of the new U.S. embassy building now under construction have turned up plenty of signs of bugs: cables seemingly unconnected to anything, odd indentations in wall panels, steel reinforcing rods so arranged as to convert structural pillars into antennas...
Landlords also use arbitrary eviction when developers try to clear out entire building to convert them into condominiums-an action declared illegal in a 1983 court ruling, Dreyfus said...
...stands almost alone. His formerly lucrative Washington consulting business is down to two clients, and Deaver will not disclose their names. He has missed the deadline for his book about Ronald and Nancy Reagan, worth a reported $500,000 advance from Publisher William Morrow a year ago. A late convert to physical fitness, Deaver, 48, has even taken to smoking again. Last week he had all the more reason to puff away: after a ten-month investigation by an independent counsel into accusations that he abused his influence as a onetime White House deputy chief of staff, Deaver was indicted...
...hope I can convert from the weight, which is more of a strength event, to the hammer. The hammer is better suited to me because it requires speed and technique," he said...
...nation that has not had a democratic change of power since its founding in 1948, and hopes to show the world a peaceful face when it is host to the 1988 Summer Olympics. Chun, who would be the first South Korean leader to leave office voluntarily, wants to convert the presidential system into a parliamentary one that would choose his successor. That move would allow the party that controls the National . Assembly to name a Prime Minister. But opponents argue that under South Korea's complex method of apportioning seats, such a system would give Chun's Democratic Justice Party...