Word: convert
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PepsiCo may also be contributing to forced labor; in order to convert its worthless Burmese revenue into hard currency, PepsiCo buys agricultural goods in Burma and sells them on the international market. These goods may be the products of forced labor farms that are common in Burma, but PepsiCo will not acknowledge its sources. Other companies have pulled out of Burma by now; Levi-Strauss, for example, pulled out in 1992, saying that "it is not possible to do business in [Burma] without directly supporting the military government and its pervasive violations of human rights...
...United Ministry denies recognition to groups which do not respect the faith of others in the Harvard community or whose practices include trying to convert members of other faiths...
Speakers--including City Councillors Francis H. Duehay '55 and Michael A. Sullivan, as well as leaders of Cambridge neighborhood and tenant organizations--discussed Harvard's decision to convert 700 formerly rent-controlled apartments into housing for University affiliates...
...issue is the University's decision to gradually convert 700 formerly rent-controlled apartment units to housing for University affiliates...
...other end of the court, senior center Brian Gilpin was no match for the Penn defense which, spearheaded by senior Tim Krug, did not allow him to convert on nine field goal attempts...