Word: converted
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...miss the dance." The video of The Dance shows images of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and the song's autumnal, retrospective tone is what seems to touch millions of listeners. Says Sue Thayer, 43, a machine-shop secretary from Grayling, Mich., and a convert to country music from rock: "It's about love affairs gone bad, and death -- the finality of relationships...
...sizable C.I.S. aid program, so his upcoming remarks will represent an elaboration rather than an expedient first-time treatment of the issue. "We should spend a couple of billion dollars for food and medical shipments and to help the C.I.S. dismantle its nuclear weapons and to help the republics convert to a marketable currency and a market economy," Clinton said several months ago. "Spending now will save us billions in lower defense costs forever and will within five or so years increase trade opportunities dramatically...
...instead of our enemy. The most depressing problem in America today is the fact that we are reducing the defense budget with no conversion plan. The one area where we had an industrial policy in the '80s was in defense. We targeted specific investments. We had an agency to convert ideas from the lab to the marketplace. We put all kinds of technicians, scientists, engineers and factory workers to work and put servicemen and -women in the implementation stage, and now we are just laying them off with no conversion plan. If it were me, I would be organizing...
Known as a Shelter-Pak, the hooded, full-length garment is covered with rip- proof nylon on one side and heavy wool on the other. Depending on how it's folded, it can convert from nighttime bedroll to daytime parka or even a backpack. Each Shelter-Pak contains a deep pocket that is almost as capacious as a duffel bag. Eighty of the garments have been distributed to homeless people in Philadelphia, and the students plan to turn out at least 200 more this year. Vows Assistant Professor Matthew Mehrman: "We are going to keep making Shelter-Paks until...
Obviously it meant war. No momentary lapse of reason would damn us to the dank labyrinths underneath that depressing medieval castle. We would rail against the grippe of German philosophy and black turtlenecks. We would extinguish smoking. Vegetarians (and other radicals) would convert, or die at our hands. The Bright Clothes Coalition was born...