Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When all else fails, the Republican trump card is television, as practiced by Ronald Reagan. During his 22-minute speech to the nation, the President told the American people to keep those cards and letters coming in to their Congressmen. Although the hot dogs at Camp David did not convert Maryland Democrat Beverly Byron, a thousand calls to her after the speech did. She, like so many others, went the President's way after a nudge from the voters. -By Ellie McGrath. Reported...
This blend of The Great Escape (with Sylvester Stallone in Steve McQueen's old role as the prisoner obsessed with getting out) and Rocky (with the whole team playing Stallone's old role) has but one aim: to convert a movie audience-typically composed of individuals lost in private fantasies-into a sports crowd, in which singular preoccupations are submerged in communal joy as the home team is cheered on to a transcendence everyone shares. With Pelé doing wondrous tricks on field, and Bill Conti's huge score blasting away underneath John Huston's superb...
...exotic place it is, tending to the daughters of "old, great Catholic families, the frontierless aristocracy of Europe." Nanda is a bright, pretty little girl, but she has two disadvantages: she comes from the middle class (rather than the upper class), and she is a "convert," having joined the church when her father did a year earlier...
...much as Skylab, which came tumbling ignominiously back to earth in 1979, Salyut was durable and highly innovative in design. Among its technological features were two docking ports (to receive visiting spacecraft, including a new class of fully automated, unmanned supply ship) and large, winglike solar panels (to convert sunlight into electricity). Salyut carried myriad scientific and observational gear, notably a multi-spectral camera, telescopes for scanning the heavens, kilns for processing materials in zero-g atmosphere, even a small garden for growing plants in orbit...
...basic requirements of a gold standard are that a unit of money be defined by a specified amount of gold and that the central bank be willing to convert money into gold. The gold standard then becomes a mechanism for controlling the money supply, and thus inflation, by linking the growth of currency to a commodity that is scarce, only slowly increasing in supply and indestructible. In times of steady economic growth, the limits imposed by a gold standard restrain spending and curb inflation. But during hard times, this can cause deflation since it inhibits deficit Government spending...