Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South African operations: "Virtually nil," according to spokesman A. Newell Garden. A wholly-owned Raytheon subsidiary, Badger Co. of Cambridge, employees two Europeans who are working on a South African government plant to convert coal into synthetic oil. Raytheon has no equity interest in the company and does not have any factories there, Garden said...
...hosts' ability to convert 78.9 percent of their charity stripe attempts overcame their dismal 37.3 percent field goal shooting, and eventually allowed Penn to pass the Crimson for good with five minutes remaining in the contest...
...biggest cause of all; it forces overseas buyers to pay out more francs, pounds or yen to buy American wheat, corn or soybeans. The muscle-bound dollar is primarily an ironic consequence of gargantuan U.S. budget deficits, which keep American interest rates high and entice foreign investors to convert their currencies into dollars, bidding up the greenback's price, in order to pour money into American investments...
...skeptical view of many Americans, plans to convert the U.S. to the metric system of measurement is an idea whose time may never come. Nonetheless, in the ten years since Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, the country has undergone a quiet metrical transformation. Although the public still talks about ounces rather than grams, and quarts instead of liters, U.S. business is inexorably going metric. From computer parts to cosmetic creams, American goods are increasingly designed and packaged in metric units. So smoothly has this transition been accomplished that consumers now routinely buy wine in 1.5-liter bottles...
...proposing cuts in Government spending even more drastic than those he achieved in 1981, while remaining adamant that the military gets virtually everything it feels it needs. He will require help on Capitol Hill if he is to win those budget cuts, but the Republican Party was unable to convert the President's electoral triumph into any significant strengthening of its representation in Congress. Before long, in any case, the G.O.P. will be divided by a battle for the 1988 nomination...