11.   And summer, the time for political conventions, happens to be the peak construction season.

12.   Arledge suggested that no ratings be kept for documentaries or the political conventions so networks would be encouraged to show more.

13.   Are Republicans moving to realize that never is a candidate, nor an elected officeholder, driven purely by the document contrived at political conventions?

14.   As lawmakers return from the recess that began before the national political conventions, they confront a new political calculus.

15.   At national political conventions, they actually take to interviewing each other for lack of legitimate news, the candidates and issues having been determined and reported weeks earlier.

16.   Birch made history this week as the first leader of a gay group to address a national political convention.

17.   Boston, along with Los Angeles and Philadelphia, is considered one of the major contenders in the sweepstakes for a lucrative political convention.

18.   Both chambers recess at the end of this week for the month of August and the political conventions.

19.   A generation ago Norman Mailer likened political conventions to nicotine in their appeal.

20.   A lot has been said about the obsolescence of political conventions, now that they no longer choose the candidates or even debate issues.