Word: converted
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...music companies may have their own plans. Vivendi Universal and Sony Music are jointly planning to launch a subscription-based online music service by year-end. And there is the problem of getting consumers to pay. Many companies have tried to convert websites from free to fee; consumers generally respond by going from free to flee...
When he moved from Long Island to Cambridge at age 30--"I even had red hair then," the now white-haired Bartley says--he borrowed $10,000 to buy a grocery store at the Harvard-owned property and convert it into a restaurant...
...ethnically Jewish nonbeliever, I find this fuss over conversion utterly baffling. Jewish leaders complain that conversion attempts imply that Judaism is an inferior religion. This seems unavoidably true. Any attempt to convert implies that the faith on offer is superior. "Theological arrogance" isn't a bad description...
There is, of course, an unattractive history of Christian campaigns to convert the Jews. The sales techniques of the Spanish Inquisition would not pass muster with the Federal Trade Commission. The recent memory of the Holocaust and demographic trends (too much intermarriage, too few children) that are shrinking the American Jewish community make conversion a sensitive subject...
...insult? In a way, it is insulting to Jews that Fundamentalist Christians don't try harder to convert us. Oh, sure, they're friendly enough now. But wait until Judgment Day. Then it will be, "Sorry, we seem to have lost your reservation." And from this perspective, the Jewish policy of actively discouraging converts to Judaism starts to seem like "theological arrogance" indeed. At the same time, when you object to noncoercive conversion, it starts to look like the opposite of arrogance: theological insecurity. What are you afraid of? The decision will be made...