Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nalen launched a study to see what people thought of OPIC and found that it was largely unknown. Nalen launched a feverish promotion campaign to tell audiences that OPIC encourages American companies to make investments in developing countries by offering insurance against war, revolution, expropriation and the inability to convert local currencies back into dollars. OPIC made a record $76.2 million profit in 1981, while issuing $1.5 billion of insurance. It will come close to doubling that level of coverage this year...
...frail ark: a talking chimpanzee named Buz, after "one of the descendants of Nahor, the brother of Abraham the Patriarch." Granted that Cohn, a former rabbinical student, is given to excesses in biblical name giving, his choice of Buz is scarcely apposite; the chimp is a Christian convert who crosses himself when Cohn reads to him from the Book of Genesis...
...Harnett was one of the new breed of conservative Congressmen swept into office in the Reagan triumph of 1980. Once a Democrat, the South Carolinian switched par ties after George McGovern's nomination in 1972, and he carries with him some of the fervor of the convert. Though he helped Reagan win his budget battles last year, he was put in an agonizing predicament by the tax bill. "I'm philosophically opposed," drawled Hartnett the day before the vote. "You don't cut Government by giving it more money. You've got to starve the bureaucrats...
...traces its provenance. The most exquisite of all is a dining car with eight frosted-glass panels handcrafted in the style of famed 19th century French jeweler Rene Lalique. The sleeping compartments, nine to twelve to a car, are marvels of compact beauty, with comfortable bench seats that convert into upper and lower berths, mahogany drop tables, and inlaid doors enclosing an ornate washbasin; there is a magnificently paneled toilet at the end of each...
...down the fraud. Early last year, agents and inspectors from the Agriculture Department joined forces with the FBI and the Secret Service partly to probe organized crime's involvement in food-stamp fraud. The redemption system helps net violators, who must sign a receipt at a bank to convert food stamps to cash. This creates a telltale paper trail. "There are a lot of stamp scams," says Robert Mueller, chief of the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston. "But compared to narcotics cases, for example, there is usually a lot more evidence." Predicts Special...