Word: convert
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Although the recent decision by Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE) to convert the Shops by Harvard Yard into University-owned shops and services has raised the hackles of vendors, we support the University's prudent and financially astute move...
...these reasons, there is little chance that the U.S. can meet Congress's goal of destroying the entire weapons cache by 2004. Although the Army continues to explore alternatives to incineration--among them chemical neutralization; biological degradation; and the use of electricity, freezing or molten metal to convert the chemicals into inert waste--those technologies could take years, even decades, to develop on a large scale. And given the looming possibility of accidents that might befall the stockpiles, time is the one thing the Army doesn't have...
...convert just two people to vote for Clinton, that's double my vote to begin with," says Ronny Carney, a Boston University sophomore. He says he distributed approximately 70 Clinton/Gore fliers during the trip...
...universe he envisions, the tax system is only the first thing to go. Instead of entitlements, he prefers retirement accounts, medical savings accounts and "payments in kind" to welfare mothers, meaning "everything from food to medicine to diapers. Stuff that's hard for a mom to convert for substance abuse." Contrary to reports that he is intent on returning America to the gold standard, he says the gold standard is not a "perfect barometer" and if someone has a better one, "whether wampum, Snickers bars or seashells or whatever, I'll be ready to listen." When he talks about family...
...Hasan offered to acquire Health Net, but Greaves wasn't interested. He was about to convert Health Net into a for-profit company, a process that under California law required Health Net to establish an independent, nonprofit foundation and fund it with an amount equal to the company's fair market value--a way of paying back the state for all the taxes the company had avoided as a nonprofit. Conversion would pave the way for going public. In a tactical maneuver, Dr. Hasan filed a lawsuit to block the conversion, charging that Greaves had undervalued the company...