Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ALTERNATIVE to pro-corporate reindustrialization. Lekachman argues, the left must mobilize around a plan for democratic control of investment decision. A National Investment Authority (NIA) he suggests, could withold subsidies from defense contractors who refuse to convert to civilian production. An and NIA would subsidize local co-ops, church-sponsored housing, and small farmers rather than lumbering auto makers. Lekachman calls for closing tax loopholes--which channel resources into unproductive uses--and redirecting the proceeds to pay for the NIA and for expanded social welfare services. Inflation should be fought not by wage concessions but by controls on oligopolistic price...
Currier House Music Society presents the Cambridge Chorale in a convert of Purcell and Holst Sunday, March 21 Fishbowl Currier House 8 p.m Reception to follow...
...David Sullivan enacted a charter right--a move that ends all debate on an issue for at least one week--on three consecutive late resolutions. Vellucci and Councilor Walter J. Sullivan had each introduced legislation to allow tenants at 36-42 Linnaean St. and 4-6 Washington Ave. to convert their apartments to condominiums without removal permits from the city's rent control board...
...most famous convert to the virtues of saltlessness is Craig Claiborne, the New York Times food editor. Before his doctor ordered a low-sodium diet, Claiborne admits, he was the kind of fellow who ate the rock salt along with the homemade ice cream, and drank straight sauerkraut juice on ice. Now, with lowered blood pressure and a bestseller, Craig Claiborne's Gourmet Diet Book, the contented cook offers some notes from a salt-free kitchen...
...that's not how everyone sees it. For every Ely convert, there has been an ardent critic, and almost all of the latter are politically liberal. One of Ely's sharpest critics, law professor Richard Parker, argues that his colleague's focus on process alone--and not fundamental rights--"is grossly middle of the road and insensitive to class distinctions." Democracy and Distrust, Parker has written is just "an apology" for the upper-middle class polity that is America...