Word: convert
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...order to complete the sale and move into the building, Shelter Inc. had to obtain a zoning variance from the city to legally convert the structure into a lodging for 20 people. And that's when all the trouble began...
...those who walked in with suitcases full of cash. But nowadays any American banker who looks the other way is looking for trouble. Reason: the Federal Government is trying to stamp out money laundering, the process by which banks often unwittingly help drug dealers, loan sharks and other criminals convert their conspicuous piles of small bills into checks and other instruments...
...also the perverted emblem of his origins. He came from a wealthy commercial family in Bavaria. He studied Kant, earned a Ph.D. at the University of Munich and his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt. An early convert to Nazism, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. On the railroad ramp at Auschwitz, where Mengele presided over the selection process, deciding which of the terrified prisoners were fit for slave labor and which were fit only for the gas chambers, he wore white gloves and highly polished boots, and occasionally whistled fragments of Wagner. In doing so, he defiled music...
Kirkpatrick will also make about 20 unpaid appearances on behalf of the Republican Party in 1985. The G.O.P. threw a bash in April just to celebrate her change of registration. Republican National Committee Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf plans to showcase Kirkpatrick in a $100,000 campaign to convert Democrats in four states with potentially close Senate races next year (Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Louisiana). Last Friday 1,000 Republicans paid $50 a plate to hear her address a dinner in Des Moines; counting others who put up $1,000 each to meet her at a private reception, her appearances raised...
Mockler is also a director of the $5 billion, Lexington based Ravtheon Corporation, which makes electronics, communications equipment and appliance. Raytheon spokesman A. Newell Garden says a wholly-owned subsidiary company, Badger Company of Cambridge, employs two Europeans who are working on a South African government plant to convert coal into synthetic oil. Raytheon, however, has no factories or operations in the country, Garden says. As of last June 29-the most recent figure available--Harvard owns 110.276 shares of stock in Raytheon worth $4.19 million...