Word: convert
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Until now. Thanks to advances in technology, Gershwin's piano rolls have been rescued from oblivion. Under the supervision of Gershwin scholar Artis Wodehouse, an optical scanner was used to convert the holes that activate the keys into computer files that can be understood by today's music synthesizers. Last week's performance on ABC's Good Morning America was played by a Yamaha Disklavier, a $20,000 grand piano that comes with a computer disk drive. A book of piano scores, transcribed by computer, is scheduled to be released later this year...
...arrangement presumably would provide greater benefits relative to cost. Around the country, some infant local think tanks are also innovating. In Denver the Independence Institute is circulating petitions for an amendment to the Colorado constitution aimed at shrinking "giantism" in the public school system. The measure would convert state education subsidies into individual vouchers so that families could shop for the most attractive classroom...
...Senate has long been a haven for the rich, but some enterprising House members aren't doing so badly themselves. Under a House rule, Congressmen elected in 1980 or earlier are allowed to "convert" unspent funds in their campaign war chests to their personal use if they leave the House by 1992. With the deadline closing in, at least six members who have accumulated $1 million or more could decide to cash in. New York Democrats Stephen Solarz and Charles Schumer may be fighting for the same seat after their districts are reapportioned, and both are considering challenging Republican Senator...
...their close personal and social ties, the three women hold very different political views. Democrat O'Connor and conservative Republican Copley like to kid about their inability to convert each other. "I haven't given up, but she never takes my advice," says Copley, smiling, about O'Connor. Neither does the liberal Kroc. What binds them, according to O'Connor, is camaraderie and a shared boosterism in regard to San Diego. Yet why do they do it? Part of the answer lies in old-fashioned values that Kroc and Copley attribute to their Midwestern upbringing, and O'Connor...
...their boat flung into a pit, where they were buried alive. She next asked that the Drevlianians send their leading men to provide an escort, then offered them a bath, locked them in the bathhouse and set it afire. Thus avenged, Olga became the first Slav ruler to convert to Christianity, and the Orthodox Church allied itself to the ruling family by making her its first Russian saint...