Word: converted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unspent checks in their pockets as "emergency money"-and his campaign is working nicely. Although no firm returns are in yet on the Maiden campaign, American Express studies indicate that people already keep approximately $1 billion in cash stashed away for rainy days. If consumers could be persuaded to convert that cash to traveler's checks, it would substantially increase the float. American Express's float totals about $2 billion at any moment; the company invests this money, mainly in long-term tax-exempt securities, and pockets the income...
However, of those scientists who have studied the matter and expressed an opinion, the overwhelming majority believe the waste-disposal problem can be satisfactorily resolved. The reprocessing of spent nuclear fuels, which the U.S. Government has refused to allow in its ineffective effort to prevent proliferation of weapons, would convert much of the waste into fuel that would be burned up for power. The rest, say nuclear scientists, physicists and engineers, can be vitrified, or embedded in blocks of glass, then buried deep underground in geologically stable salt or rock formations. All the waste generated up to the year...
...Crimson started a front line of Alberto Villar, Lee Nelson, Steve Yakopec, and Mauro Keller Sarmiento. They utilized the slippery speed of wings Villar and the Argentinian freshman to expose holes in a sagging Lion defense but Yakopec and Nelson, who was marked all game, were unable to convert...
...enough, but Cleveland's biggest crisis may be one of leadership. "It is my challenge to convert my critics," said Kucinich after beating the recall. That's a large order, since leaders of the Republican Party, of his own Democratic Party and of the black community, as well as 24 out of 33 city councilmen, the Teamsters Union and the Cleveland A.F.L.C.I.O., called for Kucinich's removal. The mayor has hinted that he will make changes in his brash young staff and will also start acting more conciliatory. Preaches he: "Let us work to achieve...
Britain's Labor government last month released a White Paper proposing a streamlined Official Secrets Act. But civil libertarians fear that under the reforms, official prosecutions will go up, not down. "The new act," says a Civil Liberties Advocate, "will convert an inaccurate blunderbuss into a highly accurate rifle...