Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...premiere seemed purely a product of flower power, hold up surprisingly well: the youths who eventually join up with Jesus have been reconceived by Director Gregory Peterson as 1980s punk rockers with spiky hair, stiletto heels and spooky makeup, and their menacing manner lends urgency to the effort to convert them to righteousness...
Since the "lag time" for education reforms to take effect can be as long as 30 years, it is important that the government act quickly to convert popular support into concrete programs. But before they act, policy makers must learn to distinguish the ceiling from the floor...
Glenn has talked so little about issues, however, that many hero worshipers confess they do not know where he stands. Advisers concede he must spell out a policy if he is to convert adulation into votes, and are feverishly writing position papers. He has a skilled media man in David Sawyer, who plans a heavy schedule of TV spots after...
...Friends!" he began. "This is a day of national consecration. . . . The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance...
...money-market accounts, when some institutions briefly offered rates as high as 25%, the competition is likely to be fierce. Dollar-Dry Dock Savings Bank in New York is already luring investors with an annual rate of 13% on a savings instrument that the bank will convert on Oct. 1 to a one-year CD paying at least...