Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Plans to convert Memorial Hall into a student center and dining hall came one step closer to reality recently when the architectural firm overseeing the proposed project determined that it was "feasible...
...modern voice-messaging system was the common telephone-answering machine. But now, instead of talking to a simple tape recorder, people are conversing with a computer at the end of the line. At the heart of the new systems are special-purpose computer chips and software that convert human speech into bits of digital code. These digitized voices can then be stored on magnetic disks and retrieved in a flash, just like any other piece of computer data...
...interest in Howard Johnson's traditions. It prefers its own traditions, as exemplified by the name of co-founder Alice Marriott. Last June it began giving Bob's Big Boys in San Diego the new name of Allie's. "The intention, long term," says a company spokesman, "is to convert all Bob's Big Boys and Howard Johnson's to Allie's." While this was going on, however, some of the old-timers who had obtained their Howard Johnson's franchises from old Howard Johnson himself were fretting about being sold from conglomerate to conglomerate. So they hired onetime Attorney...
Harvard will convert the rectory into low- and moderate-income housing and build two six-story, brick buildings on the rest of the land, said O'Connell. She said the new brick structures, designed by the Boston firm Goody, Clancy and Associates, will together provide 80 rental units for Harvard affiliates...
...become obsolete. Increasingly, access to buildings, rooms and vaults will be controlled by computerized machines that can recognize personal characteristics of people seeking entrance: fingerprints, blood-vessel arrangements in the eye's retina, voice patterns, even typing rhythms. These biometric machines have special sensors that pick up the characteristics, convert them into digital code and compare them with data stored in the computer's memory bank. Unless the information matches up with the characteristics of authorized persons, entrance is denied...