Word: converting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make matters dicier, a merger would also bring Malone, the chairman of Tele-Communications Inc. and a man with a bent for elaborate corporate schemes, into Time Warner's fractious family. Malone, who stands to convert the 21% of Turner stock he controls into about a 9% stake in Time Warner, strung out the talks with a long and changing list of demands that threatened to block an agreement. "He asks for everything," says a Time Warner executive. "You never know when he's finished." Levin and Malone hashed out their main differences at a Sept. 9 meeting...
...team yielded the goal and it engaged in a very physical, sloppy ball possession game with the Lions. It also failed to convert on a breakaway with five minutes left, but when you've outscored your opponents by three touchdowns after five games, you can overlook such things once in a while...
...When it was 11 vs. 11 we clearly were the more dominant team, but I wanted more production," Locker said. "A 1-0 lead was a disappointment to met--those are goal-scoring chances that we need to convert...
...hospital stay, and $100 a year plus 20% of doctors' bills and outpatient services--until the first several thousand dollars of seniors' health-care expenses each year would be uninsured. ("If necessary," Cato says grudgingly, there could be a subsidy for lower-income elderly folk.) In essence, this would convert Medicare into an insurance program for very large, "catastrophic" health-care expenses only. The theory is that people will watch every penny when they are paying the bills themselves...
...July 1993 when he restricted the ability of federal investigators to review documents in Vince Foster's office in the days after Foster's apparent suicide. "I'm proud of my conduct," Nussbaum declared at one point. To which Alabama's Richard Shelby, a former Democrat, replied with a convert's contempt for his old faith: "You're probably the only person in America who's proud of your conduct...