Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets, he said, would also temporarily set aside a longstanding Geneva sticking point: Soviet insistence that independent British and French nuclear forces be counted in an INF agreement. Nitze said that he would pass on the idea, but, he warned, "I'm certain that the U.S. Government will not convert a Soviet proposal into a U.S. proposal...
...bill forces landlords who want to convert their rental apartments to condominiums to give tenants advance notice of the plan, as well as monetary "relocation benefits...
Harvard had almost all the serious chances to score in the third period. After failing to convert on an early power play, the Crimson produced the game's third tie when right wing Peter Follows worked a textbook give-and-go with left wing Jay North, passing to North on the left side, breaking up the middle, taking the return pass and heating Draper from close range. Wheeler almost scored on a similar play with four minutes left in regulation, but put his shot over the net, so that he could score the game winner in more dramatic fashion...
...obscurity and obfuscation. The rule is: "If a layman can read a document from beginning to end without falling asleep, it needs work." Simple, direct statements should be avoided at all costs. For example, "The sky is blue" is impossibly straightforward; any associate worth his salt will quickly convert it to "The sky generally appears to be blue." His more experienced superior will render the statement "In some parts of the world, what is generally thought of as the sky sometimes appears to be blue." At which point, a senior partner will have a base to build...
Many physicians have resisted the new techniques because they fear that without mastectomy cancer will be more likely to recur and more patients will die. The ten-year Italian results may convert the skeptics, although Veronesi warns, "Next the surgeons are going to want to see the 15-year outcome, and then...