Word: converting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beyond that, the E.P.L.F. must convert itself from a rebel army to a civilian government that can resuscitate a region devastated by 30 years of war, a land where fields are barren and industries are still. Otherwise the leadership risks a split in the unity that has brought the independence movement this far. As an Eritrean civil servant put it, "We have our independence. That's good. Now, where are the jobs...
...make any aid effective. But the problem goes much deeper than the details of this or that economic plan. It is nothing less than a question of national character: Can the Soviets create the political culture -- the atmosphere and habits of thought -- that would make it possible to convert their country into a free-market democracy...
VILNIUS. While Russia was electing its first real President, the Baltic republics were going about their own democratic business. In Estonia, four anticommunist parties pushed for legislation to break up collective farms and convert them into private plots. In Latvia, parliamentarians vigorously debated emergency health care for local soldiers who helped clean up the Chernobyl disaster five years ago. In Lithuania, the Supreme Council passed a new social-welfare bill that will require raising taxes...
...separated procreation from marriage in a destructive way. Pope Pius XII, who denounced artificial insemination even from husband to wife, declared, "To reduce the cohabitation of married persons and the conjugal act to a mere organic function for the transmission of the germ of life would be to convert the domestic hearth, sanctuary of the family, into nothing more than a biological laboratory." When Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in England in July 1978, alarmists warned of a brave new world in which government would control the production of children...
...like to produce each issue with our own staff, because we believe that's the best guarantee of quality. Last month we became self-reliant in an important new area, a complex technological process called imaging. Through a network of computers and electronic equipment, imaging makes it possible to convert photographs, illustrations and other graphic aspects of the magazine into electronic data. These data can be stored, displayed on computer screens and eventually used to produce the pages you read. TIME is unique among major American news publications in being able to do the entire process without calling upon outside...