Word: mustering
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Defending the dollar and restraining inflation will take resolve and courage on the part of the Fed, especially in an election year. But Greenspan can probably muster the necessary determination if he thinks back to the early 1980s, when inflation got completely out of control and it took 20% interest rates to halt the price spiral. No one -- Republican or Democrat -- wants to experience a repeat of that episode...
...muster points in besieged garrison towns around Afghanistan, sentries in camouflage uniforms guard mounds of duffel bags, stripped-down weapons and communications gear. The streets teem with jeeps, armored personnel carriers, trucks, tanks, half-tracks, command cars, vans, ambulances. The vehicles are the beasts of burden for a caravan of retreat and defeat that will begin this week to wend its way through the rugged passes of the Hindu Kush, north toward home along the Salang Highway, which stretches from Kabul to the Soviet border. The road was a "gift" from the U.S.S.R. to the people of Afghanistan...
...Benedetti may not have managed to muster the majority vote needed to take control of the firm, but La Generale has not heard the last of him. He still holds 45% of the shares, more than enough to have a major voice in the restructuring process that the firm now plans to undertake. Said he: "Sooner or later, in a week, in a month, in six months or a year, I and my associates will play the major role that belongs...
...South, and he has yet to find another message. He flirted in Illinois with becoming the anti-Establishment candidate, a hard metamorphosis for a Senator's son who attended St. Albans and Harvard. But he seems most at home talking defense or microchips. The only passion he could muster in Illinois -- a speech about the Government's important role in the coming information revolution, delivered in front of a Cray X-MP/24 supercomputer -- is no more likely to find adherents in Rust Belt Michigan than it did in Illinois...
...witching-hour theatrics stemmed from the frustration of Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd over the Republicans' filibuster of his cherished campaign finance-reform bill. Last year Byrd failed in seven attempts to muster the 60 votes needed to shut off a debate and bring the measure to a vote. Last week he decided to take off the gloves, declaring, "There is no point in continuing the casual, gentlemanly good-guy filibuster...