31.   But surely, I suggested, national political conventions would definitively legitimize the city at last.

32.   But the modern political convention is a combination trade show, focus group and infomercial.

33.   But this week we are enduring a non-political political convention.

34.   But with political conventions, being last is not a bad thing.

35.   By July, Clinton runs into the political convention season.

36.   Clayson capped her week in Philadelphia with a montage of images from her first-ever national political convention.

37.   Clinton is openly relishing the Indian Summer of his political life, those final golden months before the August political conventions usher him into the autumn of irrelevance.

38.   Corporate meetings and political conventions scheduled for this year could be cancelled.

39.   Conservatives dominate Congress, the political conventions and the present partisan dialogue.

40.   Councilman Joel Wachs, a mayoral candidate sharply critical of public financing of the political convention, said the report confirmed his fears.