Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confident incumbent seeking a fifth term, Herger represents his ranchers and loggers--in the state's least populated district--against what they view as the encroachment of environmentalists and Big Government. On economic issues, he is a by-the-book conservative and has opposed attempts to convert private land to national parks...
...18th District is home to advanced medical-research facilities and world-renowned hospitals, and Doyle spent much of his freshman term safeguarding those interests. A 1992 convert to Democrat--he was chief of staff to a Republican state Senator for 14 years--he also cast an occasional nonpartisan vote, like supporting the G.O.P.-sponsored balanced-budget amendment...
Bill Gates' full name is apparently William Gates III. And as we all know, he goes by Bill. According to the e-mail, if you convert the letters in "Bill Gates III" to their ASCII values and sum them, they equal 666, the biblical mark of the devil. (For those computer illiterates out there, ASCII codes are an international standard which assigns a number from 1-256 to each of the symbols on a standard keyboard...
...Sunday night, Coffey introduced a proposal to the Undergraduate Council to convert the commons' former newsstand space into a resource center that would be staffed by council members and other student groups. His proposal was subsequently approved...
...lines ("You can't have sex without love!" "What are you, kidding? It's an American tradition!") and the chance to snag a few Butterfingers during the all-out candy fight make it all worthwhile, as Capt'n Neato-Man and his mother pull out all the stops to convert Larry into "Horatio...