Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schoenhof's store, specializing in foreign language books, is currently selecting an architect to convert the basement of the Spee's Mt. Auburn St. headquarters into a retail area. David Leyenson, manager of Schoenhof's, said last week...
...University had wished to renovate their 80-year-old apartment building on Mt. Auburn Street and convert most of the structure's 59 housing units into apartments that would rent at $900 a month...
...spending Government money. Of $800,000 Carter received for his transition, he returned $128,000. Ford regularly gives back $12,000 to $14,000 a year in expenses. When Nixon moved from Manhattan to a house in Saddle River, N.J., he spent $50,000 of his own money to convert a carport into a Secret Service command post. Ford Aide Robert Barrett defends the federal allowances. Says he: "It's the only reasonable way to deal with what former Presidents have to deal with." -By Maureen Dowd. Reported by Hays Gorey/Washington
Even though United Technologies builds jet engines and parts for the space shuttle, it was a late convert to the electronic office. Until five years ago, the company's secretaries did not even have word processors. Near the close of the 1970s, maverick engineers and finance people began bootlegging Apple and Radio Shack PCs (personal computers) into corporate headquarters. Soon more than 100 unofficial desktop machines had appeared. Now the office help works on more than 600 company-bought computers...
...Falcons mounted a threat in the bottom of the seventh on a single and an error to put runners on first and third with one out. But the one-run lead held as the Crimson defense made two good plays to convert ground balls forced by Rubin into the final outs of the game...