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Word: convert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shocked by four quick first period goals and an inability to convert power play opportunities into scores, the icemen never quite bounced back, as their record dropped...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Black Bears Score Early, Stop Crimson Icemen, 5-3 | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...elusive goal, the failure to convert pressure into something that shows up on the scorecard, leaves a nagging anxiety even with a team, like Harvard, that is unified and confident of its own abilities. "That's the frustration," commented one player, "you never know whether things are going to click...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Harvard Looks to Upset B.C... While Tradition Favors B.U. | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

This is a theater, possibly unique, that can convert mechanically from proscenium to theater-in-the-round staging. To switch from conventional to arena staging, the first 100 seats in the center of the orchestra can be removed (manually) and placed on bleachers on the regular stage. Giant plates under the right and left orchestra sections swivel those seats around so that they now face each other over an intervening gap. That gap is filled when hydraulic jackets lift a new stage floor. The result is a circle-in-the-square, with seats on all four sides. For students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Apparitions and Cakewalkers | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...energy strategy," says the President's budget report. Expenditures for energy-saving programs will increase next year by 93%, to $1.2 billion. An additional $12 billion is set aside for a multi-year program to help utility companies buy new boilers and smokestack scrubbers needed to convert from oil to coal. Until the last days of budget preparations in mid-December, the President's economic advisers were urging a new gasoline tax of 50? per gal. as the most powerful conservation measure. But after Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark's December defeat over a proposal to raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Budget of Two Big Rises | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

After a slowdown because of supply problems, Harvard Real Estate Inc. (HRE) is continuing its program to convert about 150 HRE-owned residential units from oil to gas heating...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Heat Conversion | 1/31/1980 | See Source »

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