Word: converting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Parents can be difficult to convert as well. Many hold tight to the tradition of long summer holidays, touting family outings as valuable experiences that provide quality time with their children. "The traditional school calendar is too deeply embedded in me," says Debbie Lanier of Mooresville. "We live on a lake, and we couldn't enjoy it in other months." But other parents find the life-style change beneficial. Says Robin Andrews, a landscape designer in Mooresville who has two children in the year-round program: "We can take the kids on vacations that are less crowded and less expensive...
...Blind Boys from Alabama got on stage and showed everyone the solidity, the evenness of tone, the impeccable harmonies which can happen when a group has been together for more than 50 years. They sang soulful hymnals that could convert the heathens and which made my spirit rise up from what seemed like an eternity of drought to relish in the harmonies they produced. These men tell it like it is. They believe in what they sing about, and it comes across here like only the Word...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin was scheduled to meet with the summiteers on Sunday, but the G-7 leaders do not yet want to convert the group into the G-8; Russia has a long way to go before it turns its former command economy into enough of a market economy to join the club. The seven would not put up any more of their own money for aid to Moscow, either. But they were amenable to an arrangement that would permit Russia to borrow some additional billions from the International Monetary Fund...
Ihave a modest proposal that should make everyone happy: Convert Radcliffe College into the Radcliffe Center of the Glorification of Conservatism...
...beauty. In a plot similar to that of the The Game of all Games 25-years earlier, the Crimson found itself down by 16 with six minutes left, only to score two touchdowns to make it close. But Harvard did not repeat the legendary 1968 tie, failing to convert a two-point conversion after the first of its touchdowns. Once again a good, hard effort went unrewarded as the Bulldogs...