Word: convert
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From the beginning Lefever was clearly the wrong choice for the job. A self-professed "do-gooder" who has worked for various liberal and humanitarian causes over the years, he became a convert to conservatism and founded his own rightist think tank, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, in 1976. He advocates making a distinction between "authoritarian" governments of the right (for example, South Africa, South Korea, Chile), which repress dissent, and putatively worse "totalitarian" governments of the left (notably the Soviet Union), which deny both political and economic freedom. Lefever had written that human rights questions should not interfere...
...politician who has been through that time could remain untouched by both extremes. The Koch who started out as a softy by his own account, and who then acquired a carapace, is different from a political leader who had no soft spot to begin with. With such a convert there is always the possibility (suspicion, hope) that he sympathizes more than he lets on ? as in the anecdote Koch loves to tell of the judge who got mugged and then announced that it would have no effect on his future decisions. An old lady in the courtroom shouted...
Faced with an OPEC oil embargo in 1973, the country found enough willing sellers who were not members of the cartel to keep going nicely, while developing its coal and nuclear power. Within two years, thanks to conservation measures and its growing program to convert coal to oil, South Africa will meet 60% of its needs for oil and gasoline. Nor are international economic sanctions likely to give pause to the rulers in Pretoria. One ironic reason: although neighboring black nations would want to go along with a boycott, they could not for long because they depend so heavily...
...stage where we would have liked it to be.' Executives at Genex, the Rockville, Md., gene-splicing firm, expect to double its million-dollar business this year Genex is currently seeking outside capital for a major research project: developing a bacterial organism that would convert biomass like wood or grass into ethanol, which is used in the production of industrial chemicals. The company is also accelerating research into the mass production of vitamins and amino acids used to enrich foods. Success could cut the cost of additives in feed corn from $50 to as low as $2 a pound...
...Brien and confirmed by the University's actions. "In the long run the University may have the need to use its properties in other ways that they are currently being used. You have to be very careful with this statement because we don't have any specific plans to convert properties now and there are no secret plans for the future," O'Brien says, adding, "When property is available at a reasonable price it has thus been sensible for the University to buy it." The possibility that Harvard would convert a portion of its extensive commercial holdings to institutional...