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Word: convert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sponsored Afro-American Studies Day since 1979 when students protested the University's attempts to convert the department into a committee...

Author: By Steven M. Arkow, | Title: BSA Sponsors Third Annual Afro-American Studies Day | 4/16/1981 | See Source »

Former President Carter praised the Secret Service and said the assault showed again the need for gun control. A surprising possible convert to that cause was South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who said he is at least willing to consider banning the importation of parts for Saturday night specials. Senator Edward Kennedy said he would again propose legislation to outlaw totally the manufacture and sale of that type of gun. But Carter noted that members of Congress "didn't move after 1963. They didn't move when George Wallace was attacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Shots at a Nation's Heart | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...increasing concern over landfills and the search for alternative energy sources to coal-fired and nuclear energy have stimulated efforts to convert cities' garbage into heat, hot water, combustible material, and electricity. Many established corporations, such as Combustion Engineering and Union Carbide, have entered the garbage recycling industry. The giant General Electric Corporation supplies half the power for its turbine plant in Lynn. Mass. with steam from a $50-million garbage-converstion plant north of Boston, facility, built by the Wheelabrator-Frye Company at the suggestion of General Electric, generates steam from the 11 communities and three Boston districts that...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Garbage Recycling Faces Uncertain Future | 4/1/1981 | See Source »

...Republican margin in the Senate. But what if in the process of carrying out his part of the new mandate, he misjudges the flow and gets too far out in front of Ronald Reagan? In that case Watt himself, and not the people he is determined to convert, could become the target of the President's bounty hunters. -ByRobertAjemian/Washington

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zealous Lord of a Vast Domain | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...city hearing examiner's recommendation that eviction permits be granted was the "straw that broke the camel's back," Cooper said. That verdict was forecast, though, in December when the battle finally climaxed with a Rent Board decision that Harvard should be allowed to convert the building...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The End of the Battle | 3/20/1981 | See Source »

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