Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THAT THE "EVIL EMPIRE" HAS COLLAPSED, MANY U.S. conservatives are eager to convert the Chinese to capitalism. Their nostalgic solution: RADIO FREE CHINA. The project would cost $110 million to launch and $34 million a year to operate. Among its critics is Chinese dissident Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai, the diary of her harsh 6 1/2-year imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution. Cheng notes that millions of Chinese are already devoted to Voice of America. And the new service might "give hard-liners an excuse to crack down on dissidents...
...Christian Broadcasting Network and a onetime presidential hopeful, see in the tottering wire service, which may soon be his for a paltry $6 million? Perhaps a good business deal. Or a chance to proselytize. Shortly after making his surprise bid, the savvy televangelist promised that he would not convert U.P.I. to a Christian news agency. But in a cbn appearance, Robertson said the purchase might be "a little opportunity" for God to touch American life...
...prohibit new people from being added to the welfare rolls, eliminating handouts and offering instead day care and WPA- type jobs on useful public projects -- sweeping streets, building roads and parks, doing clerical work and the like. David Ellwood's scheme, which has strongly influenced Clinton's proposals, would convert welfare into a system of short-term, transitional support lasting no more than three years, after which minimum-wage government jobs would be offered to those who couldn't find work in the private sector...
PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING. Kemp has long worked to convert housing- project tenants into homeowners with a stake in their community. Bush has paid only lip service to the program, known as hope. Congress last year approved it in principle, but denied it serious funding and required, in a typical cut-the-baby-in-half compromise, that another housing-project unit must be built for each one that is turned over to tenant ownership. The White House budget office has calculated that this scheme would cost about $100,000 a unit, and that tenants as well as taxpayers would...
...spiritual problems but also on daily life. Dropouts complain that the advice, which members are expected to obey, may include such details as where to live, whom and when to date, what courses to take in school, even how often to have sex with a spouse. One former convert says he was led through a detailed financial inventory to ensure that he would contribute heavily. Despite such extraordinary intrusions, many insist the group has uplifted them. Boston chiropractor Ken Lowey, for one, says that before he and his wife Ann signed up, "there was a real emptiness, no sense...