Word: convert
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...most raucous and vituperative debates of the new Congress, during which angry Democrats accused Republicans of rushing to passage a cruel and immoral plan, and infuriated Republicans blasted Democrats for trying to preserve a failed and unconscionable system. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, would convert current welfare entitlement programs into capped block grants to the states...
...G.O.P. welfare bill would convert the federal program that feeds needy women, infants and children into a bloc grant and give individual states the right to decide the program's nutritional guidelines. That means current restrictions on the sugar content in cereal, which allow the purchase of dowdy old Cheerios but not the more sugary Raisin Bran, would become a thing of the past. As a result, says Joseph Stewart, a senior vice president of Raisin Bran's maker, Kellogg, "Raisin Bran could no longer be denied the opportunity to participate in this program...
Evangelism is obviously acceptable at Harvard. But only on the part of the established religious groups. A common argument against recognition of the HCIA is that its members will approach lonely students, especially those vulnerable first-years, in the dining halls in order to convert them. There are two answers to this concern...
...power play struggled. Although Harvard scored two power-play goals, the team could not convert on two different two-man advantages...
...from next year's $305 million budget, and the Energy Department, with $80 million trimmed from solar-energy and environmental-cleanup projects. The G.O.P. lawmakers also presented a plan, which outraged Democrats, to take $2 billion from day care, school lunches and other long-standing social-welfare initiatives and convert the money to block grants for states to set up their own programs. Aiming at perhaps the widest target of all-bureaucrats-the full House voted 276-146 to freeze thousands of environmental, health and safety regulations, including rules on everything from meat inspection to nuclear-waste disposal...