Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pentagon request includes $887 million this fiscal year and next to build eight new KC-10 advanced tanker planes for the Air Force, put new engines in half of the nation's 517 KC-135 Stratotankers and buy seven Boeing 707s. Other funds would be used to convert eight commercial cargo ships to fast Navy resupply vessels. There are also funds to lengthen the runways at the U.S.-leased military base on Britain's Diego Garcia Island in the Indian Ocean so it can handle B-52 bombers and to improve ports at Mombasa in Kenya and Barbara...
They fought the University to the bitter end in a battle that climaxed in December when the city's Rent Control Board voted unanimously to grant Harvard the permits necessary to convert the offices...
...minutes following the second stanza--came back with two goals in the last six minutes of regulation play, including a short-handed tally by co-captain Brenda Condon with two minutes left. But Bill Duthie's squad, led by Ivy scoring champ Marg Degidio, could not convert on a 43-second, five-on-three advantage in the first extra period and numerous other changes in overtime...
Penn blew four game points, and Harvard failed to convert two before putting the match away. Then with the Crimson ahead, 20-19, it was time for an instant replay of the final seconds of last week's match against Albany State, which Harvard...
Harvard's two-year battle to convert the apartment building to office space became a symbol of conflict between the University and the surrounding community. Many tenants' rights activists criticized the Rent Board when it finally gave Harvard the go-ahead to change the building in December...