Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resting place for Denver Catholics was Mount Olivet Cemetery. But as maintenance costs soared and Catholics began to bury their dead elsewhere, the archdiocese came to fear that Mount Olivet would no longer be able to make ends meet. To help bolster revenues, the archdiocese decided last spring to convert a chapel on cemetery grounds into a mortuary and offer burial services at lower prices than private establishments. The new tab for an average Mount Olivet funeral comes to $1,100 compared with $2,500 elsewhere. That includes coffin, the use of two limousines, death notices in two Denver dailies...
...guests had every right to be startled by the demolition. But from the band of local preservationists, who fought a losing three-day legal battle to stop the demolition, the shock was a mockery: they learned in May that the owners planned to strip the 26-story Biltmore and convert it into a bank headquarters. Keepsake nostalgia for the 68-year-old hotel did not impress its proprietors. "The Biltmore is not architecturally significant," said Renovation Architect Michael Gordon. The famous lobby timepiece, at least, will return after the rebuilding. Yet will anyone rush to an assignation "under the clock...
...dollar's condition first started to improve while Jimmy Carter was still in office. High U.S. interest rates in 1980 began to entice foreigners to convert their money into dollars for investment in America, thus driving up the dollar's exchange rate. President Reagan early this year quickly proclaimed his commitment to a tight monetary policy, and the dollar's worth continued to climb. As Poland smoldered, the Middle East flared and the French voted in a Socialist government, jittery money traders and investors looked to the U.S. as a bastion of political stability. The dollar...
...buys a hotel that is part brothel and part headquarters for nitwit anarchists. Berry has previously failed in this line of work. In the first half of the novel, the superbly elegiac voice of the narrator, Win's son John, describes his father's attempts to convert a second-rate private school in "Dairy, N.H." into the first Hotel New Hampshire. Berry's business decisions include leaving the table and chairs in some of the former classrooms screwed to the floor and not changing the minisinks and kiddie toilets in bathrooms once reserved for the first grades...
Plugged-in writing is not a new phenomenon. In 1973 Hersey tried out electronic fiction writing in order to aid a Yale University computer project-and became an instant convert. But it took a while to get the gadget out of the institution and into the study. Once Carter was pictured composing his memoirs on the Lanier "No Problem," authors and others could easily imagine themselves at the console. Spurred by the new availability of word-processing programs for personal computers like Radio Shack, Apple and Atari, demand for home units has risen dramatically. Among the aficionados: Bestseller Luminaries Michael...