Word: converted
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...fight were, in the end, less important than the tactics. In December, according to Time Warner, after months of negotiation, the two companies had come to a deal regarding the fees TW would pay to carry various Disney-owned channels on its cable systems and--most notably--to convert the Disney Channel from a premium service to basic cable. Disney negotiators deny they had got that far. And certainly after Time Warner announced its merger with America Online on Jan. 10, Disney didn't feel it had a deal. What it had then was leverage. Figuring that TW would tread...
...considered the case of an ill-tempered immigrant named Erik the Red. Erik, the saga says, had arrived in Iceland several years earlier after being expelled from Norway for murder. He settled down on a farm, married a Christian woman named Thjodhild (the Norse were by now starting to convert) and had three sons, Leif, Thorvald and Thorstein, and one daughter, Freydis. It wasn't long, though, before Erik began feuding with a neighbor--something about a cow and some wallboards--and ended up killing again...
...Institute had planned to convert 70 rooms into office space for the Institute's 58 academic fellows--the most Radcliffe has ever had. But the planned renovations will begin in the summer of 2001, Armini said...
...plan to convert 70 rooms would not have had an impact on the people who want to stay, just on the number of people who can come in the future," he said...
...true that the illegal piracy of copyrighted music has become commonplace in universities across the nation with the introduction of MP3 compression, which can convert an entire compact disc of music into files small enough to be easily transmitted across college networks. Indeed, the problem of overloading networks with music files was the first issue to face universities after the launch of Napster.com: Northwestern University banned use of the service last fall after it began to consume more than 20 percent of the traffic on the campus network...