Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Western powers at the Bretton Woods monetary conference in 1944. But last week's move has immediate practical implications as well. It will trigger the release of much of the $24 billion in aid that has been pledged by the major industrialized nations to help the former Soviets convert to a free-market economy...
...rectory of St. Paul's parish was old to Harvard in July 1989 on the condition that it be dedicated to affordable housing. A year later, the church and college selected Cambridge Housing Authority to convert the buildings into 19 one-person apartments and two family units...
...nicknames in recent years have more meaning--starting with one I gave myself in high school while running for senior class president: The Sammy Man. I postered the campus with signs that read. "The sammy Man Can," trying to convert the beginning of my last name into a political force...
Scientists have so far identified 13 organic substances that are commonly labeled vitamins. In the human body, they play a vital role in helping regulate the chemical reactions that protect cells and convert food into energy and living tissue. Some vitamins are produced within the body. Vitamin D, for example, is manufactured in the skin during exposure to sunlight, and three other vitamins (K, biotin and pantothenic acid) are made inside the human gut by resident bacteria. But most vitamins must be ingested...
Stalin -- rough, conspiratorial, despising authority -- was a natural Marxist revolutionary. While studying at a Russian Orthodox seminary in his native Georgia, he became a convert to Marx and never changed course. His career contrasted with Hitler's because his movement already had a leader, Lenin. Unlike Hitler's public portrayal of himself as a man of destiny, Stalin's style was stealthy, behind the scenes...