Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city agency report released Thursday has recommended that Cambridge military contractors develop plans to convert to civilian industry...
Knocking down walls or partitioning the larger rooms is one possible way to convert single rooms into suites, Quinn said. "Duplex" suites which would span the fourth floor and attics of a dorm is another option being considered, he added...
Perhaps the most serious peril on the price front is the fate of the dollar. For several years, high American interest rates have encouraged foreigners to convert their money into dollars for investment in the U.S. Since 1980, the value of the dollar has risen about 50% against an average of ten major currencies. As a result, imports have become cheaper, and the U.S. is running a record trade deficit that puts downward pressure on the dollar. A steep plunge could kindle U.S. inflation by boosting the price of imports. Warned TIME Board Member Lester Thurow, an economics professor...
...Sections of the route would be "sold" at $3,000 a kilometer to sponsors who contribute to charity. Doing it the American way, the Olympic flame would arrive from Greece electronically. AT&T, which is sponsoring the Olympic relay, set up a system at the ruins in Olympia to convert the flame to an electronic impulse. This was to have been transmitted by satellite this week to a receiver in New York City's U.N. Plaza. Unfortunately, the L.A.O.O.C. forgot a lesson as old as the Iliad: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts or, in this case, guarding traditions...
...four years but managed nonetheless to keep in contact with a Sunni Muslim student group opposed to what it regarded as Gaddafi's perversion of Muslim teachings. Gaddafi is said to have met with the two imprisoned students on more than one occasion in an effort to "convert" them to his way of thinking, but without success. His patience finally snapped over the issue of drafting women along with men, a proposal Gaddafi favored and the Muslim students fiercely opposed. So did many older Libyans, who were appalled at the idea of teen-age girls serving in army camps...