Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eager to get Moscow's ear on joint-venture ideas, think they have found just the way to do it. A group of companies led by Dwayne Andreas, chairman of the agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland, wants to buy the partly completed U.S. embassy in Moscow and convert it to office space for American companies doing deals there. Construction on the $22 million, eight-story facility was halted in 1985, when the U.S. discovered it was honeycombed with listening devices. If President Bush decides to pursue the proposal, he would have to persuade the Soviets to provide another site...
...Illinois Jacquet attributes his experience at Harvard of working with the student jazz musicians for inspiring him to convert a long nurtured hope of forming his own big band into a reality," says an Offce of the Arts at Harvard-Radcliffe press release...
Administrators this spring will also determine the feasibility of moving the freshman dining area to Memorial Hall and creating other student facilities in the building. If the move is approved, it will likely be incorporated into plans to convert the Freshman Union and surrounding structures into faculty office space for humanities departments. Plans for both a "humanities center" and a "student center" will depend primarily upon financial resources, says Associate Dean of Physical Resources Phillip J. Parsons...
Public Confidence. A newly elected President dominates whatever attention is paid to public affairs and outshines Congress. Yet Bush, though active since Election Day, has yet to convert that opportunity into a stout foundation of public confidence...
...last week's verbal cross fire over Libya indicated, it is not easy to distinguish between factories that manufacture fertilizers, pesticides or pharmaceutical products and those that produce chemical weapons. Experts say that with just the turn of some levers or the change of a catalyst, a plant can convert from the production of pest killers to people killers in as little as 24 hours. Small wonder, then, that the U.S. spurned Libya's offer for a one-time inspection of the facility at Rabta...