Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecutor was taken aback. "You do?" Sensing a moment of weakness, Rutger immediately began to expound the whys and wherefores of the American Way. In a few minutes he had a convert. "But even if the United States does have the right to subvert the government of any country it chooses," the interrogator asked as he drove us to the airport, "Why does it pick...
With the score tied, 1-1, it was now only a matter of which team could convert its penalty stroke...
Under a proposal for economic conversion that he advocates, legislation would assure that corporations do not lose money when they lose defense contracts because the government would help them convert their operations to produce goods for the civilian market...
Because land is difficult to find in Cambridge, a lot of condominiums are being converted, Graves said. The laws in Cambridge make it impossible to convert an apartment building into condominiums. However, since there is a need for affordable housing, conversions are taking place from two-and three-family homes to condominiums...
...process. But the AIDS virus is a so-called retrovirus and contains single-stranded RNA. Alone, RNA lacks the ability to conquer cells, but retroviruses carry an enzyme called reverse transcriptase. When the AIDS virus invades an immune-system T cell, the enzyme enables the viral RNA to convert to DNA, take over the cell's machinery, produce copies of itself and disable the cell...