Word: convert
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...Almost 150 Harvard graduate students--unaffiliated with Radcliffe--live in the building, and loudly objected to the Institute's plans to convert 75 dorm rooms into office space for the Radcliffe fellows that will arrive in Cambridge this fall...
...Jill C. Stonehouse '03, another CI member, said that although the goal of Jesus Week was not to convert non-believers, organizers wanted the campus to know that anyone can join a Christian group...
...fight were, in the end, less important than the tactics. In December, according to Time Warner, after months of negotiation, the two companies had come to a deal regarding the fees TW would pay to carry various Disney-owned channels on its cable systems and--most notably--to convert the Disney Channel from a premium service to basic cable. Disney negotiators deny they had got that far. And certainly after Time Warner announced its merger with America Online on Jan. 10, Disney didn't feel it had a deal. What it had then was leverage. Figuring that TW would tread...
...considered the case of an ill-tempered immigrant named Erik the Red. Erik, the saga says, had arrived in Iceland several years earlier after being expelled from Norway for murder. He settled down on a farm, married a Christian woman named Thjodhild (the Norse were by now starting to convert) and had three sons, Leif, Thorvald and Thorstein, and one daughter, Freydis. It wasn't long, though, before Erik began feuding with a neighbor--something about a cow and some wallboards--and ended up killing again...
...plan to convert 70 rooms would not have had an impact on the people who want to stay, just on the number of people who can come in the future," he said...