Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little seemed to dampen the spirits of fans attending Sunday's Super Bowl game in Pasadena, though city officials had to do a lot of scrambling. Because the golf course usually reserved for parking at the Rose Bowl was too soggy to use, for instance, they had to convert streets surrounding the stadium into makeshift parking lots. Otherwise, 10,000 or so cars that would normally be parked there might have sunk up to their hubcaps on the fairways...
Nothing could be more obvious than the evidence supporting Riesman. Scofflaws abound in amazing variety. The graffiti-prone turn public surfaces into visual rubbish. Bicyclists often ride as though two-wheeled vehicles are exempt from all traffic laws. Litterbugs convert their communities into trash dumps. Widespread flurries of ordinances have failed to clear public places of high-decibel portable radios, just as earlier laws failed to wipe out the beer-soaked hooliganism that plagues many parks. Tobacco addicts remain hopelessly blind to signs that say NO SMOKING. Respectably dressed pot smokers no longer bother to duck out of public sight...
...find it disheartening that a religion such as Christianity believes it has a divine right to convert all peoples to its ways. A society's religion helps it adapt to the stresses of its environment. Once a culture is changed by outsiders, it begins to deteriorate...
Jean-Marie Lustiger, 56, who was appointed Archbishop of Paris by John Paul in 1981, is the first Jewish convert to join the College of Cardinals in modern times. The other French appointee to the college is not a bishop but a Jesuit priest: Theologian Henri de Lubac, 86, who was suspended from teaching under Pope Pius XII because of his then radical views on such subjects as other religions and atheism but who emerged as an influential force at the Second Vatican Council. Italian Jesuit Carlo Maria Martini, a brilliant Bible scholar named Archbishop of Milan...
Harvard has argued that the removal permits are essential because the proposed renovation of the 80-year-old building--which would convert it to luxury units--could not be performed with the building occupied...