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Word: convert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money to buy supplies. Says Boyd Bartlett, senior vice president for John Deere, the major equipment maker in Moline, Ill.: "PIK is going to help farmers, and what's good for them is good for us in the long run." Manufacturers are now looking for ways to convert billions of dollars' worth of PIK contracts into cash that can be used to buy tractors, seed and other supplies. Last week International Harvester announced a plan to help farmers find grain merchants willing to advance them cash now in exchange for the PIK grain due to be delivered next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting PIK-ed to Pieces:Federal Payment-in-Kind Program | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...SEVERAL MONTHS, the Harvard-owned Craigie Arms apartment complex has stood vacant on Mt. Auburn St. Harvard Real Estate (HRE), which manages the University's vast holdings in Cambridge, has a $2.5-million renovation planned to convert the deteriorating, 85-year-old building to primarily luxury housing. But the city's rent control board has twice refused to issue HRE the permits it needs to remove Craigie's 59 low-and moderate-income units from Cambridge's tight rental market...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Clear Choice | 4/8/1983 | See Source »

Prior to its glorious sixth. Harvard had twice loaded the bases, but managed to convert those opportunities into only two runs. In the third inning, with one away. Wilson chopped a grounder over the B.U. pitcher, allowing Nancy Andrea to score for the first Crimson...

Author: By Jon Askin, | Title: Batwomen Down Terriers, 6-4, In Come-From-Behind Victory | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

Harvard's current plan would convert the building's 59 units into primarily luxury housing, with 14 apartments subsidized by government funds for the low and moderate income tenants who occupied Craigie Arms until this fall...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Report Raises Questions on Craigie | 3/15/1983 | See Source »

...doesn't take long to realize that we are going to spend this night at the movies watching noble Will convert a 1964 racist, Southern military academy into accepting its first Black cadet. We learn early on in the film that Will and his small band of roommate-disciples will have to battle a secret and unpleasant group of cadets called The Ten. It doesn't take long to guess that the good guys will...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: No Discipline | 2/17/1983 | See Source »

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