Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since 1988 Congress has voted to close or scale down a total of 120 bases and convert much of the property to civilian use, but it has also insisted that facilities be turned over environmentally clean. Nonetheless, communities have shied away from accepting future liability for any of the sites, and some transfers seem likely to drag on for decades. President Bush last month signed a bill sponsored by Congressman Leon Panetta designed to streamline procedures - for allowing certain portions of the bases to be turned over piece by piece, and for assuring that the Federal Government remains responsible...
...Crimson failed to convert on a penalty corner, and Dartmouth cleared the ball. The ensuing fast break reached Harvard's circle. The Big Green then forced a penalty corner and Devens did what Harvard could not do all day: she poked in a rebound for a score to end the game...
Reach seems to have won at least one convert inHarvard men's soccer Head Coach Steve R. Locker.Locker said yesterday he was looking forward toseeing prototypes of the ball...
British Coal argues that it was forced into the cuts because its best customers, the electric-power companies, decided to abandon coal furnaces and convert to gas-operated generators. The electric utilities claim that gas will be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than coal...
Clinton says he will make the necessary, responsible cuts in the defense budget that Bush will not. He says he will deemphasize the Star Wars program and downsize the U.S. presence in Europe appropriately. And he and running mate Al Gore have a sensible and forward-looking plan to convert defense industries to productive elements of the civilian economy...