Word: convert
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...program to steer youth toward high-tech jobs. (Utah claims its population is the most literate and youthful in the U.S.) It has a sophisticated state "center of excellence" that screens scientific and technological research projects with an eye to bringing the most promising to market. To convert miners into machinists, the state finances retraining programs both on campuses and at companies. State officials argue that it is no accident that McDonnell Douglas has laid off thousands of its workers in Long Beach, California; Mesa, Arizona; and St. Louis, Missouri; but not in Salt Lake City, Utah...
...filled with the scent of Bold Hold. Bartenders at Daisy Buchanan's filling orders for seven Sexes on the Beach every hour. Stiletto heels denting the earthy floor of Pamplona. Narcissus, with its huge, silver, upside-down awning jutting out into Kenmore, closed last month after B.U. decided to convert the building, which they rented to the club, for university...
...curator, however, said he will continue his fight with the center's new director, Senior Lecturer on the Visual Arts Robert G. Gardner, to save the center's Sert Gallery. Gardner, who took office last Thursday, wants to convert the gallery into an art studio. And it was Gardner who initiated the layoff of the curator in April...
Gardner and the chair of the department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Alfred F. Guzzetti, have repeatedly said that their decision to oust the curator and convert the gallery to studio space is in the best interest of the center and its patrons. They could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...some connections to the World Trade Center bombers. According to court papers, two members, ringleader Siddig Ali and Clement Rodney Hampton- El, a black American convert to Islam, told FBI informant Salem they had helped that group test-fire a bomb. Several members of both groups had also fought with the Islamic fundamentalist guerrillas harassing the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan -- a resistance movement supported, ironically, by the U.S., which is now the terrorists' target...