Word: convert
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Harvard’s investment strategy, which has long emphasized broad diversification of assets, has also made the portfolio more illiquid, or difficult to convert back into cash. This has proved especially problematic amid the broadly slumping markets of the past year...
...advance may also help researchers better understand neuromuscular diseases, Rubin said, because they will be able to convert a patient’s skin cells into the cell type of interest and study the difference between their own healthy and diseased cells...
...severe pageboy, Ayn Rand would sweep into a room with a long black cape, a dollar-sign pin on her lapel and an ever present cigarette in an ivory holder. Melodramatic, yes, but Rand didn't have time to be subtle. She had millions of people to convert to objectivism, her philosophy of radical individualism, limited government and avoidance of altruism and religion. Her adoring followers--some called them a cult--revered her as the high priestess of laissez-faire capitalism until her death...
...score would remain 1-0 for the remainder of the game as the Minutewomen failed to convert on additional opportunities and penalty corners...
...much tequila do I have to give to my boyfriend in order to receive a diamond?” one audience member asked Javier Morales, Miguel Apatiga and Victor M. Castano of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, the winners of the Chemistry prize who had discovered how to convert tequila into diamonds...