Word: convertions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rental construction and no sales of existing rental buildings except at distress prices. Building maintenance and services were cut back, causing widespread deterioration. Homeowners rebelled at having their taxes go up as the value of taxable rental real estate declined. To elude rent controls, landlords often convert buildings to condominiums, and tenants must either...
...book's most unexpected findings did not come out of the homosexual research project, but from sex therapy provided for gays-itself something of a pioneering venture. Between 1968 and 1977 the researchers treated, for various sexual problems, 151 homosexuals, including 54 men and 13 women who wanted to convert or revert to heterosexuality. M & J do not list a success rate for such conversions, only a known failure rate. That failure rate is now at 35%, and is not expected to exceed 45% when all the five-year follow-ups are completed. For professional therapists, many of whom believe...
...second singles match featured Martha Roberts and Yale's Kathy Dalton in the closest contest of the afternoon. Roberts took the first set easily, 6-3, playing very relaxed tennis. Dalton came back to take the second set, 7-6, grabbing the tiebreaker, 5-4, after Roberts failed to convert three match points. Using her new momentum, Dalton weny on to sweep the final...
...elements of Judeo-Christianity, Islam never fully submitted to the West's power. Its various states and empires always provided the West with formidable political and cultural contestants-and with opportunities to affirm a "superior" Occidental identity. Thus, for the West, to understand Islam has meant trying to convert its variety into a monolithic undeveloping essence, its originality into a debased copy of Christian culture, its people into fearsome caricatures...
However, the wish to convert a building into a family unit is not sufficient grounds for eviction under rent control...