Converting money into property is always more fun than converting property into money.
Moreover, when converting money during the transition period, the arithmetic is different, and more complicated, than in simply converting one currency into another.
"I'd convert money, and check to see that I wasn't running into any national holidays, and figure out what fruit I could eat".
Converting money at an official exchange office can mean accepting a rate that is 20percentt worse than that available on the black market.
In a growing number of online games, it is possible to convert money from the real world into virtual goods services or cash that can later be converted back into the real thing.
Under one proposal for dual exchange rates, the rate for converting pensions and other long-term investments of East Germans would be more generous than for converting money in circulation.
This suggests, among other things, that some rich people are better than others at converting money into influence, and that inequalities in wealth and inequalities in influence sometimes have a common cause.
William J. Schneider of Greenwich, Conn., recently wrote to the Travel section asking for a review of the best ways to convert money for foreign travel, before going or while abroad: using a bank, post office, money exchange, hotel or an A.T.M.
It's inappropriate for these members to convert money for their personal aggrandizement". Of all House members, Representative Stephen J. Solarz, Democrat of Brooklyn, is eligible to retain the most campaign money should he leave Congress -- $1.4 million.
