Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea is to convert the defensive People's Army into a modern, mobile attack force capable of projecting power beyond China's borders. Top priority is a blue-water navy to carry troops into areas remote from the mainland. But the Pentagon estimates that it will be at least 20 years before China can rival the U.S. Navy, and it is an open question whether any regime can bear the expense of seeking military superpower status...
...Golden Knights continued their domination after Grant's goal, and Hobey Baker candidate Todd White missed a golden opportunity to convert a breakaway goal by uncharacteristically wristing the puck well over the net and out of harm's way. Clarkson's own mistakes and the outstanding play of Prestifilippo, however, was all that could contain the Knights' offense as by the end of the second period, the Knights were outshooting the Crimson by a mammoth 30-14 margin...
Another crucial convert was the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's courtly porcupine, chairman Jesse Helms, who had signaled which candidates would never get past his committee. Aides say the North Carolina Senator always had a soft spot for Albright as a fellow full-throated anticommunist. He was delighted that she had ousted U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, loved her attacks on Cuba. But Albright wasn't taking chances. One day, as a favor to a friend, Helms called her in New York and asked if she would come to North Carolina to speak at a foundation luncheon...
Time makes more converts than reason, Thomas Paine advised, which helps explain why Bill Clinton, having spent his career in a deep embrace with campaign money, last week declared himself disgusted with the whole system and vowed to join a revolution. Elections, he said, "take too much money, and it takes too much time to raise the money, and it always raises questions." He will have to start answering those questions in the spring, when the Senate begins hearings into the Democratic Party's fishy campaign-finance machine. As an incumbent with high approval ratings, no need...
Harvard had three more power plays, including a five-on-three and a four-on-three, but couldn't convert...