Word: convert
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...nominations to be the official beginning of the three-month "Oscar season." On Thursday morning in Beverly Hills - at exactly 5 a.m. local time - the nominees will be announced for the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards, serving up an ideal Christmas gift for studios that will then rush to convert the love into marketing gold...
...more competition is on the horizon. In the past two months, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Raymond James, GMAC, American Express and business financier CIT have all applied to convert into bank holding companies, partly in order to be able to get access to cheap funding through deposits. GE Capital, the finance arm of GE, is planning on doubling its deposit base, which it garners through broker-sold CDs, to $81 billion next year. Goldman Sachs is on track to open an online bank. Morgan Stanley, which already has $36 billion in deposits, is selling billions of dollars' worth...
Harvard invests over a fifth of its endowment in assets that are difficult to convert into cash, such as private equity and real estate, according to Harvard’s September annual report...
...opened up an early lead in the contest for the UC’s top spot by garnering the lion’s share of student group endorsements in the first week of campaigning. But whether Flores and running mate Kia J. McLeod ’10 can convert their advantage in student group endorsements into a win at the polls remains to be seen. The Flores-McLeod ticket leads its nearest opponents, Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 and running mate Alneada D. Biggers ’10, with eight out of 11 student group endorsements...
...Silver’s lab is trying to use genetically-engineered bacteria to convert sunlight into hydrogen, a clean energy source...