Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week went on, Carter was hurt by Senator Byrd's call for an open convention, but the President's fortunes in general seemed to rise. The White House won a notable convert: Douglas Fraser, president of the United Auto Workers and an early Kennedy backer, who apparently decided that any move to block Carter's nomination was fading. He refused to fight for an open convention and announced that he was ready to second the renomination of Mondale unless the convention turned to Kennedy. The powerful United Steelworkers Union was also preparing to endorse Carter this week...
Gordon Ramsay, a lawyer for developers attempting to convert an apartment building at 295 Harvard St. to a cooperative, warned the council last night that individual members might be "held liable for considerable money damages" if they "interfered" with the formation of cooperatives...
...wrong, Reagan is not likely to change them. In general he sees no reason to modify his opinions when he feels the rest of the country is coming around to his point of view. The best way to form a coalition, he thinks, is for other people to convert to his viewpoint. To an extent, this has happened. But he eventually will meet more resistance. At that point, will he give a little or stand adamantly on principle...
That theory is typically enunciated in blunt, incisively written opinions, with what one legal observer calls "the best opening lines since Greta Garbo." Typically, he starts by writing a stream-of-consciousness memo, and then his clerks convert it to the standard format. Stevens' opinions may become increasingly significant. His liberal votes take on a special prominence because of the diminished influence in recent years of old-line liberals William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. So far, his novel theories and poor salesmanship have prevented him from becoming a leader. But Stevens is well aware that many a lonely dissent...
...august dealer-photographer Alfred Stieglitz gave Hartley his first one-man show at his famed 291 [Fifth Avenue] Gallery. To his delight. Hartley suddenly found himself immersed in the Stieglitz circle. But his most emotional experience was his discovery of Albert Pinkham Ryder. "I was a convert to the field of imagination into which I was born," he wrote. "I had been thrown back into the body and being of my own country...