Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite Hotchkin's and Kenworthy's best efforts, Harvard couldn't convert on a number of key opportunities in the contest, and the sluggish Crimson offense couldn't match the Big Red's, which peppered Ginsburg with 11 shots...
...both elements. Putting two and two together, geologists have long assumed that when living organisms die, heat, light and bacteria begin to degrade the constituent compounds. That organic material then collects in sedimentary layers in the sea and is buried progressively deeper. After millions of years, pressure and temperature convert the debris into fossil fuels. Yet little hard evidence supports this conventional wisdom. Declares Tore Lindbo, Swedish Power Board coordinator of the Lake Siljan project: "It is simply a theory that is generally accepted...
...American oil industry. He used Mesa as a vehicle to buy huge chunks of such companies as Cities Service, Gulf and Phillips, then sold the stock to other bidders at premium prices. Last week Pickens moved to end the Mesa saga. In December, shareholders will be asked to convert the company from a public corporation into a limited partnership. After that move, Mesa is not expected to make any further takeover attempts...
...They are devastating in automatic form. They are like spraying water from a hose." The MAC-10 greatly outnumbers another gun favored by criminals, the compact Israeli-made UZI. That well-built weapon is more accurate, but it is more expensive at around $700 and far more complicated to convert to automatic firing. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms unintentionally gave the MAC a boost in the underworld in 1979 when it classified the gun as a semiautomatic weapon. The distinction was crucial: semiautomatic guns, which require a separate pull of the trigger for each bullet, can be purchased...
...recognizes the ordinary without ridiculing it, but his ordinary is loony enough for any South American magic realist. The seat of Mist County, in an unmapped region northwest of Minneapolis, delights in eccentric folklore. The first white settlers are led by a Boston Unitarian called to convert the Indians with interpretive dance. She only captivates a beskinned and unbathed French trapper, with whom she has seven children. The failing local college - is finally abandoned after a bear kills a student, and the town's first Norwegian is a Union Army deserter whose descendants, the Sons of Knute, hold a yearly...