Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bluster on the left, Gorbachev's greatest challenge comes from the reactionary conservatives. They make up a bizarre patchwork quilt: hard- line trade unionists and factory workers from groups like the United Worker's Front who oppose a "return to capitalism"; military officials angered by plans to convert defense factories to civilian use; entrenched party apparatchiks who fear the loss of position and privileges; and Russian nationalists who hanker after the Czarist past, many of them aligned with the reactionary Pamyat (Memory) movement. Whatever their ideological differences, the conservatives are united by a concern that the reforms are moving...
...leading foreign policy analyst concluded bluntly, "We should help those in the Soviet Union who are doing the right thing." But is Gorbachev really a convert to those ideals we consider the "right things" -- political pluralism, individual rights and a free-market economy? Whoever believes that will believe Santa Claus is bringing my grandchildren the $150 Nintendo sets I am buying them for Christmas...
...have been their poorest performance of the season, but Harvard still had a shot to come away with the victory down the stretch. With 20 seconds remaining, the score was tied, 74-74. The Crimson failed to convert on its next two possesions and was forced to foul Central Connecticut, but with two seconds left on the clock, Harvard was still in it. With her team trailing by two points and the Blue Devils shooting one-and-one, Delaney Smith called timeout...
...ability to convert mathematical principles into public policy. He's got all the ivory-tower abilities, but he applies them to practical problems," Chalmers said...
...developed in the 1930s using vacuum-tube technology, works something like a seesaw. A mechanism drives a loud speaker that pushes the air when incoming sound waves rise and pulls it back when the sound waves fall. Alternatively, antinoise waves can be created digitally, using a signal processor to convert incoming sound waves into a stream of numbers. Given those numbers, computers can quickly calculate the frequency and amplitude of the mirror-image waves. Those specifications are then fed to a conventional speaker and broadcast into the air. Sounds that the system wants to preserve, like human voices...