Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There seemed to be strong sentiment for some sort of voluntary TV package put together by the N.C.A.A. The court appears to have left room for a loosened arrangement, but it remained unclear exactly what kind of plan could now pass muster. In the meantime, pressure for some schools to make private deals is already formidable...
Garcia, Roybal, and others must also monitor carefully the Simpson-Mazzoli bill. If they can demonstrate its harmful effects and lack of solvency, they may be able to muster the votes to alter the legislation. The last significant changes in immigration policy were made 19 years ago, when there was no Hispanic voice in the process...
...delegates are the name of the game in any candidate's quest for a party nomination. No matter how many ballots it takes, nobody will be able to walk out of the convention hall in San Francisco the Democratic candidate for president unless he can muster support from a majority of the delegates...
...bureau: "It used to be that we said, 'Here is a child who needs a home.' Now it is 'Here's a childless couple, let's go find a child.' " Lewis fears that couples screened out as undesirable in other states will pass muster in South Carolina's lax family courts. As an example of adoptive parents' vulnerability to fraud, she cites the case of two women from Summerville who are currently serving time for at tempting to sell the same baby to two different couples. The unfettered system can also induce...
Here's what one would like to say: that Torvill and Dean's routine was more important in its sublimity than all the shootings and elections tune can - muster; that life is short and art is long; and that the skating dance, brief and evanescent as it is, represents a perfection in which the entire universe may be encompassed. Theodore Roethke described such an effect in a poem: "A ripple widening from a single stone. Winding around the waters of the world." Nice. It may even be true. Yet it is just as likely that Beirut...