Word: convertibility
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...like you. You can stay with us. But we don't want to hear any more about Jesus. OK?"...Had I taken the time to read about the Pirahãs before visitimg them the first time, I would have learned that missionaries had been trying to convert them for over two hundred years. From the first record of contact with the Pirahãs and the Muras, a closely related people, in the eighteenth century, they had developed a reputation for 'recalcitrance' - no Pirahãs are known to have 'converted' at any period in their history...
...hand off to Gordon can't convert, comes up about a half yard short...
...getting a number of calls from financial firms who want to know if they should convert to bank-holding companies," says Randall Guynn, a partner at law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell. "But if you start to add all of these companies to the list, then I am not sure there is enough money to go around." See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...shot on a power play two minutes later, but Milan turned it aside.The first period ended scoreless with the Crimson ahead in shots, 7-5.Multiple Union penalties in the second period gave Harvard 4-on-3, 5-on-3 and 5-on-4 advantages, but the Crimson was unable to convert opportunities.Neither was its opponent, who had the puck at the goal line shortly after the 30 minute mark, but Hoyle made two clutch stops while drawing an interference call.Harvard looked to have taken the lead on the ensuing power play, when sophomore Matt McCollem’s backhand appeared...
...Ecological sanitation, as this call to arms is known in toilet circles, is already up and running in many spots around the world. In rural China, 15.4 million homes convert methane into power from what normally went down the pit behind the house. Household waste is stored in a state-subsidized "digester," a kind of metal stomach that breaks down the matter and releases methane gas which is trapped for reuse. In the French city of Lille, a small fleet of ten buses are also using methane, gleaned from the city's poop. And in some Indian villages, simple latrines...