Word: convertibles
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...which has damaged whatever credibility America might have had among the ordinary Afghans it hopes to convert. The Taliban, like the Iraqis and Serbs before them, have exaggerated civilian casualties while helping create more of them by positioning artillery near mosques and schools--erecting human shields and daring the U.S. to hit them. Daud Khan, 28, a refugee coming out of Kandahar, the Taliban stronghold, told TIME that the regime's forces have moved into residential quarters of the city, occupied houses and put antiaircraft guns on the roofs. Another 45 camouflaged truckloads of weapons have been moved into...
...Reclamation Artists’ work is somewhat esoteric and hard to grasp, but in essence much of their work—including “Nest!”—seems to consist of attempts to make something out of nothing. Or, more precisely, to convert a formerly vacuous physical topos into an organic component of a superimposed piece of art. In particular, Reclamation Artists are concerned with neglected urban landscapes, and have often endeavored to add an aesthetically pleasing touch to otherwise barren and unappealing scenery...
...Long anticipating it would lose its exclusive right to sell Glucophage, BMS already was working another strategy: to try to convert doctors and patients to two new formulations of the drug, Glucophage XR and Glucovance. It's a common tactic used by brand-name drugmakers as their patents near expiration - develop a slightly altered version of a drug, which is then eligible under FDA rules for at least another few years of market monopoly, and try to get users of the original drug to switch. BMS has run newspaper ads offering patients free 30 or 60-day supplies...
...there is a lot of enthusiasm to convert the Malkin Center to what I’d call recreational space,” he added...
...other “liberals.” But her reputation reached new depths of notoriety in the wake of the Sept.11 tragedy. Coulter has openly advocated the wholesale destruction of the entire Muslim and Arab world. “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity,” she declared in her Sept. 13 column in National Review Online (NRO). Coulter’s piece created such an uproar that NRO refused to publish her follow-up column, in which she suggested that airport security should single...