Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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City Councilors last night voted to condemn a proposed state bill which would allow apartment owners to convert their rental units to condominiums on the grounds that it would have emasculated the city's rent control ordinance...
...game's first penalty, to freshman Nick Carone at 10:40, gave the Bulldogs a power play chance that it took just 27 seconds to convert, Maciver shot over a fallen Blair who had gone done making the first save...
DIED. Cornelis Bernardus van Niel, 87, pioneering Dutch-born microbiologist who in the 1930s formulated the first correct chemical theory of photosynthesis, the all important process by which green plants convert water, carbon dioxide and light energy into carbohydrates and oxygen; in Carmel, Calif. At Stanford University, Van Niel worked with bacteria, some of which also perform a kind of photosynthesis, to derive his own general equation; in the 1940s experiments using isotopes of oxygen with different atomic weights traced the course of the chemical reactions and proved he was correct about green plants as well...
...collar. Leather specialist Gianni varsace has opted for a look that combines the best features of prep punk and cosa nostra the six stalwarts in coordinatingly cashing suits and ties demonstrates that designers have given up trying to teach men now to match their clothes and have decided to convert tastelessness into tastelessness. They matched sets. In the liberated '80's ther is no need for six guys to share the same closed...
Trying to convert the past into fiction is no small act of faith either. The historical novelist must believe that he can be adequately inspired by old documents when, in fact, his imagination is better served by direct experience. Moore cites as his sources eyewitness reports and church records used by 19th century Historian Francis Parkman for his classic The Jesuits in North America. The novelist does not mention that it is hard to improve on this enthralling narrative, with its zealous clerics snatching souls from "the fangs of the 'Infernal Wolf' " and its droll view of the New World...