Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...applaud the local initiatives and then bow out. In Washington itself, with a huge homeless population, private groups are struggling to "hold the situation together with gum and baling wire," says Jack M. White Jr. of the city's Coalition for the Homeless. Even Washington's most ebullient convert to the cause -- Housing Secretary Jack Kemp -- is full of ideas but inevitably short of funds. His latest initiative, Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere, would promote home ownership for low- income tenants and support local nonprofit groups. But its total funding is only $750 million next year. The 1987 McKinney...
Ever since October, when the Rev. Tomas St. Louis laid out plans to convert a small woodworking shop in the mostly white neighborhood into a new site for his New Covenant Universal Church, nearby residents have complained that the church would create serious noise and parking problems...
...business of the best modern horror movies -- and Misery is definitely one of the best -- to convert such commonplace anxieties, smoothly and plausibly, into deliciously prolonged worst-case scenarios. Almost casually, we learn there was nothing accidental about Annie's being there to rescue Paul after his accident; she had been stalking him as he finished a new book at a neighboring resort. Gradually, it dawns on us that she is never going to surrender him to a hospital. She is going to keep him in her isolated house -- no phones, no visitors, just her special, suffocating brand...
...excise tax. "It is an error to view a tax on that liquor as merely a tax on the rich," he wrote. "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey." Jefferson, alas, failed miserably to convert fellow citizens to his favorite beverage. Americans last year drank 23.5 gal. of beer and 26.6 gal. of coffee per capita but only 2.1 gal. of wine. As a result, although the U.S. ranks sixth among the world's wine-producing nations, it is 29th in terms of wine consumption...
There is no evidence, however, that Iraq has tried to convert the core into an explosive device. When Iraq purchased the uranium from France in 1975, Baghdad agreed to place it under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a Vienna-based nonproliferation watchdog group. IAEA inspectors perform tests on Iraq's stash twice yearly. Last week the agency certified that the latest round, conducted from Nov. 19 to 22, showed "no change" in either the amount or the purity of the uranium...