Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighborhood example of Kissinger-style linkage, Cambridge's new-found regulatory control could convert into political currency redeemable in other battles with the University. The next time Harvard scientists decide they need a laser plasma lab, city officials may be able to trade zoning exemptions for increased tax payments, more low-income housing like the River-Howard St. lot recently donated by the University, or even something as small as athletic facility privileges for neighborhood residents...
...aura of good, giving gentle Londoners a lesson in anti-imperialism. And Dick Van Dyke chimney-sweeps his way into the hearts and minds of even the most phlegmatic. By contrast, Jane and Michael's banker father sings, "Tradition, discipline and rules must be the tools." Mary manages to convert him eventually, though. The Politburo would surely censor this film--never has the case for healthy dissent been so eloquently stated. The message is simple: if you start worrying about conquering nations, you easily forget to feed the birds. And that can be very, very costly...
Within the church, government control is pervasive. The appointment of every cleric, from Patriarch Pimen on down, must be cleared by the Council for Religious Affairs, a government agency that supervises all religious matters. Under these circumstances, contends Father Michael Meyerson-Aksyonov, a convert to Orthodoxy who tried unsuccessfully to enter a Soviet seminary and is an émigré now living in the U.S., "the priest is not the spiritual or moral leader of the community. He is a performer of rites and nothing more...
Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO chief, on spending a weekend with corporate bigwigs of the Business Council in Virginia: "The only way to convert the heathen is to travel into the jungle...
...fully a third of the oil currently produced in the world had forced her to construct foreign policy around oil interests. Barnet asserts that the oil priority is not new and cites the Marshall plan as an early marriage of American business and political concerns. The decision to convert Europe from a coal-based energy system to an oil-consumptive one, after the decimation of World War II, is unavoidably tied to oil lobbying. The world's consumption of oil, inextricably linked with its consumption of minerals, water, food and energy, is managed by a handful of businessmen, much...