Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move that will help wean soldiers from the plastic bottles, Milwaukee- based Aqua-Chem last month shipped Operation Desert Shield three state-of- , the-art water-purification units with a total value of nearly $1 million. Each of the mobile units, which use a process called reverse osmosis to convert salt water or contaminated water to drinking water, can produce up to 3,000 gal. per hour under battlefield conditions. Together the units can meet the needs of 10,000 troops...
...Muslims, who have applauded his efforts to protect the Ayodhya mosque. But he will have a harder time swaying the rest of the population, which is more concerned with rising inflation and a growing budget deficit. The B.J.P. will fight back with its platform of Hindu Rashtra, trying to convert religious fervor into votes. Where Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (I) Party might enter the equation is anyone's guess. But in order to survive, the winner must find a way to appease Rama without sacrificing Indian democracy...
...proves to be a sensitive and caring ecologist, tenderly nursing the land and its creatures. When, eventually, he encounters members of a culture that is alien to him, he is open to their ways, making no effort to impose his on them. Quite the opposite; he becomes an earnest convert to their life-style. When he finds a wife, he is exemplary in his gentle attentiveness and supportiveness as she struggles to find and assert a "personhood" that was confused by events in her early history...
...prejudice. Partly because the law of averages suggests that in a group this numerous there ought to be at least one mean, crazy, totally unassimilable figure. Somebody, in other words, who would cut through the sweet patience with which the Krichinskys confront both their ups and downs, and occasionally convert their dear, generally comic bickerings into something dramatically forceful. We're talking chicken soup here -- momentarily warming and comforting but, in any large moral or historical sense, therapeutically useless...
...Supports home health care as opposed to nursing home care in many cases. Also supports an increased reliance on hospice and home care for elderly and chronically ill. Convert Medicaid into something along the lines of a managed care program. Opposed to Universal Health Care Law passed by legislature in 1988 as too burdensome on businesses...