Word: convert
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Crashing the net as it had not all season, Harvard deprived Howard of any cushion, robbed him of his comfort zone and transformed easy saves into second-chance goals. The Crimson was particularly successful with a man advantage, swarming the crease to convert on three of its four power-play opportunities...
...more delightful consequences of the recent election that Democrats-now caricatured as the party of elite secularists-find themselves led in the Senate by a pro-life, pro-gun, pro-war, red-state convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But Reid's ascendance has little to do with ideology; it is a practical matter. The Senate is the only place in Washington where Democrats, though a minority, can force the Administration to make a deal. They can do so because of arcane rules that require a 60-vote majority to stop a filibuster...
...also ideal for the long, cold, windy Cambridge winter days. “I appreciate the fur because as a tiny Floridian, it keeps me warm, and in the rain, we know these animals can get wet,” says Alexa Von Tobel ’06, a convert to the fur-craze of the winter. The hood serves as a sort of retreat from the cold, with the fur as an added buffer...
Murdoch lined up support last week from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who owns 3% of News' nonvoting shares and said he was willing to convert those shares into voting stock and buy even more. A second prong of defense emerged earlier, when Murdoch's board adopted a "poison pill" provision that would make it hugely expensive for Malone to add to his stake. Poison pills don't sit well with shareholder groups. "They generally are adopted by boards unilaterally just when shareholders least like to see them," says Ann Yerger, acting executive director at the Council of Institutional Investors...
After St. Lawrence racked up three penalties in quick succession, Harvard had an important 5-3 advantage. But the Crimson had failed to convert on its first such opportunity earlier in the period. Corriero took advantage of the second chance by pounding the puck home from in front of the net off a pass from Vaillancourt...