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Word: convert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press commentary on the "style" that the Reagans might restore to the capital; snickered gleefully that all the newcomers would bring was "Beverly Hills class." Few other First Families have plunged into redecoration right away. One of the first things the Kennedys intended to do was convert a bedroom to a private dining room, but they did not get around to it for months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Now, a First Decorator | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...Chrysler Corp.'s 175 lenders were asked to convert $572 million in loans to preferred stock in the company. That amount represents about half the firm's outstanding debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chrysler Goes Back to the Well | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

Harvard won a two-year battle with tenants in a Summer Rd. apartment building last night when the city's rent control board voted to permit the University to convert the homes into office space for the Graduate School of Design...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Okays Summer Rd. Plans | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

...city's Rent Control Board is expected to give its final verdict tonight on the University's two-year-old attempt to evict tenants from 7 Sumner Rd. and convert the property into office space for the Graduate School of Design...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Rent Board to Rule Today on 7 Sumner Rd. | 12/16/1980 | See Source »

...check for $264,000 to pay off National Review's debt. Tyrrell, then 22, was an Indiana University graduate" stu dent with some $27 in the bank. Knowing a well-intentioned hoax when he saw one, an amused Buckley called him up and soon encouraged Tyrrell to convert his small, off-campus conservative newspaper into a witty, sprightly national monthly. The latest issue features Christmas book recommendations from former President Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: All the President's Magazines | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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