Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President of the Philippines, it was the perception of everyone that she was taking power by virtue of her election. On March 25 she decided to organize a revolutionary government. In effect, she discarded the 1973 constitution, under which she had been governing for one month, and opted to convert herself into a revolutionary President by issuing what is now known as the Freedom Constitution. This changed the picture totally. I argued against it. I have witnesses to this effect...
...multiplied, district office operations have burgeoned, and members have expanded their personal presence in their districts. Providing assistance to constituents, interest groups and local government units in their dealings with the federal bureaucracy is a non-partisan, non-ideological and largely non-controversial activity that enables modern representatives to convert some who would otherwise oppose them on partisan or ideological grounds...
Crimson forward Char Joslin led some deep drives into Brown territory in the middle of the second half, and set up a handful of Harvard penalty corners. But the Crimson couldn't convert them into goals...
Some DNA viruses become inactive and escape detection by the host's immune system by insinuating their genetic material into the DNA of the host cell. A retrovirus, however, must first use its enzyme called reverse transcriptase to convert its RNA into a DNA molecule, which can then insert itself into the cell's DNA and order the cellular machinery to begin producing more retroviruses. Or it can remain dormant and invisible to the immune system, / awaiting some signal to begin causing trouble. Hidden in the cell's DNA, says David Baltimore, who shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery...
...medical researchers hope soon to have a powerful ally in their campaign against viruses: vaccines made from genetically engineered viruses. At the NIH, Dr. Bernard Moss is using recombinant DNA techniques to convert vaccinia, a large virus that causes cowpox, into a one-shot, multidisease vaccine. He plans to insert only the antigen-coding genes of eight to ten kinds of dangerous viruses into the DNA of live but weakened vaccinia viruses. The re- engineered vaccinia would then sport the antigens of the harmful viruses, but not their ability to cause disease. Once inoculated, it would stimulate the immune system...