Word: convertibles
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...This summer, the students from the group traveled to Tanzania with the support of the Harvard Initiative for Global Health and the Idea Translation Lab to experience Africa firsthand and test their technology: microbial fuel cells, devices that convert chemical energy to electrical energy, and light emitting diodes...
...exploring include asking the Federal Reserve to supply the loans or requiring the banks that the government is currently bailing out to loan the money to the Big Three. As an alternative, Utah Senator Bob Bennett suggested Thursday that those banks getting money from the Treasury be required to convert any carmaker debt that they hold into equity, thereby easing the Big Three's cash crunch...
...resting" boreholes to give the source time to replenish its heat. While the ongoing costs of a geothermal power plant are low - Krafla, for example, has only 15 full-time employees - the start-up technology needed to extract heat from a few miles beneath the earth's surface and convert it to electricity is not cheap. By some estimates, conducting the necessary geologic surveys and exploratory drilling for one plant can take up to eight years and $20 million before the turbines start turning. "The high cost is a barrier to everybody," says Karl Gawell, executive director...
...University will also convert existing short-term tax-exempt debt into bonds with longer maturities, allowing the University to postpone short-term payments to debt holders and retain a larger financial cushion to the volatility in the credit markets...
...Salvation Army has a devoutly religious mission, rooted in its founding in 1865 by an evangelical protestant minister (and former pawn broker) named William Booth, whose early motivation was to convert poor Londoners - and eventually prostitutes, gamblers and alcoholics - to Christianity. Recognizing that his followers needed more than just religion to improve their lives - and that the way to attract the destitute was the provide services - Booth provided meals, clothing and other assistance to his early converts. He was famous for saying, "Nobody ever got saved while they had a toothache." The quasi-military name "Salvation Army" was given...