Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walls. In order to pick up a network stereo broadcast, a local station must first be adapted for stereo. Some 200 stations have made the technical conversion, and 300 more plan to do so this year. Then, of course, the home viewer must either have a stereo TV or convert his conventional set to stereo with an adapting device (average cost: $150). Once a set is stereo-ready, more sophisticated audio gear can be connected to it. Bill Artope, a producer for Needham Harper Worldwide advertising, who lives in Evanston, Ill., has hooked his new stereo TV to a state...
...effort to conserve took hold. At one point, President Carter declared conservation "the moral equivalent of war." Consumers turned off unnecessary lights, rode bicycles, dialed thermostats down to 65 degrees F and drove 55 m.p.h. instead of 70 m.p.h. Meanwhile, rising prices made it economical for utility companies to convert to coal-fired and nuclear-powered plants and for other businesses to install new energy-efficient equipment. Some homeowners even began heating their houses and pools with solar panels. Result: the U.S. reduced its reliance on oil imports from 8.6 million bbl. per day in 1977 to 4.3 million...
What ensued was a walk, a pair of singles, a pair of grounders that shortstop Hayes couldn't convert to outs, a bunt, and a two-run squibbler to the right of the pitcher's mound...
...what he would say to Reagan personally. I would invite him to normalize relations with Nicaragua, to have a friendly policy. I would invite him to convert himself into a factor for peace in Latin America and the world. If he says he is a Christian, that he believes in God, he could have a more Christian policy. He could be more humble. He could try a new type of relationship with a revolutionary government, a government that is not a threat to the United States...
Born Yesterday, produced by Dave Edmunds with canny affection, contains some spectacular versions of material as various as Bob Dylan's classic Abandoned Love and the mid-'70s oldie Arms of Mary, a sexual reminiscence that the brothers convert into a reverie of distant innocence and immediate longing. The album's standout is the title track, written by Don, a song of romantic loss and spiritual devastation that has at least a decade's worth of pain packed tight beneath its terse lyrics. Don, who uses the Random House Dictionary and a thesaurus when he writes, expresses grateful surprise when...