Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oxford St. planted herself next to the Holyoke Center Christmas tree. It was quite cold, and she is quite old, but threat of eviction from her Harvard-owned housing ignited protest. The apartment she lives in is one of 700 formerly rent-controlled units which the University plans to convert into student and faculty housing. Even if she was offered a option to buy, Tanner regrets, she could not afford the going market rates...
...University has announced plans to convert the units, which are currently occupied by tenants who pay below-market rent, to student and faculty housing...
Visually impaired students can benefit from large monitors, talking computers and a Braille printer. For course items such as textbooks which are not computerized, the ATL can scan in material for students and convert it into electronic form. Blind students can then choose to enlarge the text on the monitor or have the computer read the text to them...
Some of this technology has been around for several years, such as the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software needed to convert scanned texts and handouts into electronic text...
...fact, the ATL has been negotiating with book publishers to give it textbooks in electronic form to save the time and labor required to scan and convert textbooks itself. But publishers have balked at the idea, primarily because they fear people will widely distribute these books electronically...