Word: convertions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when TV becomes less obtrusive. Justice John M. Harlan cast the fifth vote to make a majority, but he urged the court to "proceed step by step in this unplowed field." If the next TV appeal involves different facts, Harlan implied, he may well shift his vote and convert the minority into the majority...
...system, and adult Britons sometimes learn this by struggling futilely to adjust nuts scaled in centimeters on their stalled Volkswagens by using British wrenches that are built on inches. But help is on the way: the British government last week announced that over the next ten years Britain will convert to the metric system...
...Hotel to the annual convention of Conservative rabbis, Kelman argued that while in prewar Europe Jewish partners in a mixed marriage customarily abandoned their faith, the opposite is true in the U.S. now. Today, he declared, "a large number of non-Jewish part ners are willing and eager to convert to Judaism...
...symptomized by a deficiency in liquidity and a fundamental dis-equilibrium. In this system central banks use a mixture of gold and foreign exchange as reserve assets--meaning that they back a portion of their currency with dollars and pounds. Every central bank has the legal right to convert its dollars to pounds at the rate set by the U.S. Treasury: 35 dollars to the ounce. But every central bank knows that the U.S. Treasury just doesn't have enough gold to redeem every dollar in foreign hands. Therefore, every central bank is reluctant to hold dollars as reserves when...
Great Things for Sod? As a rule, says Lyle Schaller of the Cleveland-Akron Regional Church Planning Office, ardor begins to cool when a church becomes selfsupporting. By the time it grows to cathedral size, organization may stifle altogether the spiritual ambitions of a genuine convert. "A convert enters a church ready to do great things for God, and the first thing he is asked to do is serve on the altar flower committee," notes Chicago Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty...