Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's opponents are using the ballot to muster support against the regime. Communists oppose the proposed constitution because it does not, they say, redress social injustices. Juan Ponce Enrile, who was fired as Defense Minister last November after allegedly orchestrating a coup attempt and is widely thought to want the presidency, opposes ratification because, he says, Aquino's abolition of Marcos' constitution undermined the legitimacy of her own rule. He calls Aquino the "new dictator...
...forgettable as the score of an ordinary basketball game or as memorable as an Erving move in the midst of it. "There's no ultimate move," he says, "because they aren't choreographed. They just appear. Not for a whole game, but in the right circumstance, I could probably muster up enough energy to do almost anything I've ever done one more time. If it's there, I will." While not exactly set up, the best moves are prepared for, like the corporate and charitable ventures that have been Erving's off-season concern and will soon...
...rough language, steamy sex and, to the military mind, inaccurate view of boot camp. The Pentagon said no to WarGames because the military contends that a teenage computer hacker could never crack the U.S. strategic defense system. Even Rambo's lone-wolf heroics would have failed to pass muster, despite later praise from President Reagan. The Pentagon guidelines do not condone "activities by individuals . . . which are properly the actions of the U.S. Government...
Neither team could muster much of an attack, until Brown forward Kathryn Wilder smashed the rebound of a corner shot under the legs of Harvard goalie Denise Katsias for a 1-0 Bruin lead with 30 minutes left in the game...
...decided by which candidates can cough up the cash for a heavy media assault in the last days of the campaign. Here the G.O.P. holds an astounding edge. Through Sept. 30, the National Republican Senatorial Committee distributed $6.7 million to its candidates, while the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee could muster only $2.8 million in funds. The Senate campaign committees are each limited by law to spending roughly $12 million for all Senate races. The G.O.P. expects to "max out" its cash limits in every one of its tough races, while the financially strapped Democrats will not be able to come...