Word: convert
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...These are not people who would pilot a plane into a building, but they are people who will see the U.S.'s crusade against terrorism as something less than righteous. If we are truly to defeat terrorism, we must convert those people around the world to the idea that America is indeed a force for good. No one is born a terrorist; they are created and then bred. Only when we eliminate the breeding grounds of terrorism will we defeat...
With Congress closely divided, everyone in Washington wants to be wooed as the key to legislative victories. By shifting alliances and presenting an aura of unpredictability, Hoffa has transformed the oft-troubled union into a premier political force. In the coming weeks, the White House needs his help to convert the five to eight Senators required to start drilling in Alaska. Democrats are counting on the Teamsters to fight the Administration's plans to let Mexican trucks operate in the U.S. and Bush's push for trade-negotiating authority. "They are not a lock for us, and that is their...
...will probably be hearing from assisted-living representatives who argue that any increase in oversight will convert these facilities into sterile, uncaring medical institutions. But good care and a pleasant ambiance are not mutually exclusive, as the best nursing homes and assisted-living facilities demonstrate daily. The real danger to assisted-living establishments is not from regulation but from the predictable disasters that occur when vulnerable residents are left in the care of inadequately trained employees. ERIC CARLSON National Senior Citizens Law Center Los Angeles...
...year ago that he had just months to live. But with the inexorable will that has made him an empire builder, he pumps his latest project, a swashbuckling novel featuring a miracle-working naif who brings God's word from Ethiopia to California. Bill Bright is a late convert into the exploding field of religious potboilers, but an enthusiastic one. "I've written many books about the Holy Spirit," he says cheerfully, "And this will probably be read by many times more people." He knows that if only one thousandth of the people whom he has reached for Christ through...
...public schoolers. These schools compete for students like L.J. Decker, 17, from Katy, Texas, who scored 1560 on the SAT and was part of a team of home schoolers who won the Toshiba ExploraVision contest for their idea of a futuristic scuba device that would use artificial hemoglobin to convert the oxygen in water into...