Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first problem with this "solution" is the continuation of the "Band-Aid" approach to our economic woes--a practice that becomes increasingly popular in election years. Recent studies have suggested that plants involved in arms manufacture can be converted to such necessary industries as mass transportation, solar energy, and solid waste disposal, using many of the present technologies. The federal government alone could create this change, first by reducing its own purchases of arms and restricting the sale of U.S. arms around the globe, then by offering loans to firms and communities planning conversion of munitions works. This would...
Sally Zeckhauser, president of Harvard Real Estate Inc., said yesterday University lawyers will argue that Harvard's intention to convert the four-story brick apartment to office space was clear before the ordinance was passed...
...tried to construct a simple model of what makes it attractive for a developer to convert a building into condominiums," he added...
...first major expansion of nightly network news since CBS and NBC extended their evening reports from 15 minutes to half an hour in 1963. Shortly after the takeover, ABC launched an excellent nightly news special, The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage, that has continued ever since. ABC will soon convert it to a regular 11:30 p.m. (E.S.T.) newscast; CBS and NBC are said to be considering late-night news programs of their own. Says PBS's Robert MacNeil: "TV has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world...
...rough time in the tire business too. The hardest hit has been Uniroyal, target of a 40-day walkout last summer that cost it an estimated $42 million in forgone sales. The strike helped convert a slender 1978 profit of $5.9 million on sales of $2.7 billion into a 1979 loss that may exceed $9 million. The most heavily debt-burdened of the companies, Uniroyal is also dragging around a $520 million unfunded vested pension liability, which is equal to more than 80% of its net worth...