Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...zero yards, or that the Crimson's space age, quarterback-in-motion offense blew a couple of third-down conversions before clicking for a Don Allard-to-Paul Scheper touchdown pass late in the first half. There were so many opportunities to score that the Crimson needed only to convert on a few to blow the game open...
...Villanueva's failure to convert a game-winning 31-yd. field goal on the final play of last week's 17-17 tie with Princeton now looms all the larger in the Ivy League race. Had Harvard beaten the Tigers and (as expected) gone on to defeat Penn two weeks from now, the Crimson would travel to New Haven on November 21 guaranteed a share of the Ivy title with a victory over Yale...
Cambridge has so far resisted the temptation to convert to straight majority voting because, advocates insist, the PR system consistently ensures minority representation on the city council and school committee and at the same time prevents domination by any one political faction...
While rent control successfully slowed down the increase in rents that has already forced thousands of tenants out of Cambridge, it also created a tremendous incentive for landlords to convert their apartments into condominiums and sacrifice long-term income for a one-time profit...
...writer of this week's cover story is no stranger to the pains and pleasures of athletic activity. Before joining TIME last March, Associate Editor J.D. Reed spent five years writing for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But Reed, 41, is only a recent convert to participatory sports. A perpetual dieter, he estimates that he has lost almost 450 Ibs. over the past 15 years and gained back nearly all of them. He blames his exercise program, which he describes as "mostly TV-channel switching. My idea of aerobics was shaking the popcorn popper, and isometrics was pushing together the two halves...