Word: convert
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Heredity has a lot to do with the muscles' makeup, but training can play a part as well. "You can't convert slow-twitch into fast-twitch fibers," says Fleck, but you can speed them up a bit. Middle-distance runners who want to improve their final kick can go through drills of bounding, jumping and sprinting to condition their muscle fibers to contract more quickly...
...himself." But Perot did make one important concession to convention when he hired two experienced handlers in early June to run his campaign. Ed Rollins had directed Ronald Reagan's 1984 campaign, and Hamilton Jordan had managed Jimmy Carter's efforts in 1976 and '80. Their mission was to convert Perot's feisty guerrilla operation into a force capable of waging a general election campaign...
...federal postal service granted a two-year "grace period" for the entire University to convert to the new system, Moore said...
...million freight alone. In December 1990 Otisca reluctantly withdrew from the DOE Clean Coal Round No. 2 and forfeited its grant. Otisca still had contracts with clients to supply varying amounts of its fuel. But none of them was willing to put up the big stakes necessary to convert significant power plants from oil to Otisca Fuel...
...Kinsella was standing before men who were struggling to survive. "Every year do you just keep taking your corn check and turning it over to the implement dealer?" Kinsella asked. Sarver was born again. On a bus home from Kinsella's school he began to figure how he would convert to no-till farming field by field. He did not have enough money to phase in the new methods so he went cold turkey, sold his seven-bottom plow and the larger of his two tractors, a 225-h.p. four-wheel-drive John Deere. He used to make eight trips...