Word: convert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Trailing by 16 points with six minutes left, the team scored two dramatic late-game touchdowns to make the game close, but a failure to convert on the two point conversion after the first of those touchdowns spelled out its doom...
...alumnus appears to have already made an important convert. Associate Dean of the Faculty Richard G. Leahy, who as a member of the faculty's institutional review board oversees proposed human subject research, met with Dockham last week. He now says Harvard's policy needs to be clarified...
...Garza became a Gabay convert. Under Gabay's first administration the council experienced remarkably little internal dissent, successfully distributing grants funding free comedy concerts and airport shuttle buses, and presenting plans for evaluating teaching fellows...
...fact, no one objected to Quayle's praise of personal responsibility and the two-parent family at the time. To call President Clinton, as Quayle does, a "convert" to such bromides is preposterous. To be sure, the past couple of years have seen a growing fashion of blaming illegitimacy for everything from urban crime to the North Korean nuclear bomb. But even in ancient 1992 it required no courage to endorse "family values...
...just yesterday, Yale officials offered to invest $3 million to convert a downtown New Haven office lower into a hotel and convention center. The university is hoping the state will finance most of the project through grants and loans...