Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member lower house, Ecevit's Republican People's Party depends on the uncertain support of independents to maintain a slim majority. Meanwhile, Ecevit is under constant attack by burly, gladhanding former Premier Süleyman Demirel, whose Justice Party has 177 parliamentary seats but can muster enough support from independents to threaten the government on any important vote...
After a sparkling indoor season, injuries devastated the spring version of men's track. The squad could not muster an impressive outdoor record because of a lack of depth. But the tracksters improved in every meet, particularly in the throwing events where Joe Pelligrini, Tom Lenz and Gary Quantock garnered many unexpected points...
...exempting the nuclear power industry from the salutary effects of full liability, by denying the American public its rights to just compensation, and by countenancing hearings which wouldn't pass muster in a county courthouse, Congress and the Supreme Court are degrading and endangering the public's rights to safety and participation...
Davies should know. He is the music director of the only full-time chamber orchestra in the U.S., the 26-member St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Under his leadership, the St. Paul brilliantly exemplify the virtues of being middle-size. Their Baroque performances are fleet and supple yet they can muster the muscle of Beethoven and Schubert, avoiding only the more elaborately scored late-19th century works. In modern music they have a scintillating bite and precision. Throughout the repertory, their texture is so transparent that it allows for no slack playing, and there is none...
Whatever has prompted the tour's dramatic increase in quality over the past three or four years, the change has placed the artistic shortcomings of the company in relief. It can muster high-quality productions and casts for the week-long stint in each of the cities the tour visits, but the regular season in New York is much less consistent...