1.   Although the organization still supports some legislation, Norton said, the focus is evolving into convincing people of the need to observe a day of rest and worship.

2.   And he already has enough trouble convincing people of his objectivity given that his wife, Susan, is advising Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas.

3.   And that means convincing people like Floriano Peixoto, who manages a glass factory on the outskirts of Campinas for Sylvania, that using gas will save money.

4.   A lot of her work involves convincing people not to buy the wrong thing.

5.   But convincing people at first seemed like a long shot.

6.   But for many companies the primary weapon for convincing people not to wait is a warning that the new sets will be extremely expensive.

7.   But they have had trouble convincing people because investigators have conceded that they lack definitive evidence either way.

8.   In a society eternally hierarchical, from long before Confucius to decades after Mao Tse-tung, that means convincing people they can safely take on new responsibility.

9.   Now the challenge is convincing people not to worry about sales volume, which also came in lower than expected.

10.   The alternative was to buy exotic hardwoods that nobody had ever heard of in the hope of convincing people that the lumber was a suitable substitute for better-known types.