Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with an artful response to the taunts of his principal rival, Bob Dole, and climaxing with a brawling, take-me-on-if-you-dare performance at a Des Moines debate, Bush appeared to have whipped his wimp image. But the Vice President may need all the moxie he can muster, since he suddenly found himself bushwhacked over an issue he hoped had been forgotten: his role in the Iran-contra scandal. The fusillade of what-did-he-really-know charges came mainly from the press, but it was Alexander Haig who put them in sharp political focus when he asked...
Thirty seconds later, Colgate's Scott Youngconnected with the Raiders' second power play ofthe afternoon, virtually sealing the win forSlater's Raiders. The Crimson failed to muster upany more offensive firepower...
...across-the-board cuts required by Gramm-Rudman. Congress, however, has until mid-December to incorporate the new deal into law before the full weight of the Gramm-Rudman ax falls. Thus congressional leaders will be forced to iron out swiftly the details of the summit compromise and to muster the votes for the requisite tax hikes and spending reductions...
...Cadets, besides scoring a power-play goal late in the third period--the first extra-man tally the Crimson has surrendered this season--couldn't muster enough artillery against seasoned freshman goalie Michael Francis...
Ginsburg will need all the equanimity he can muster as he prepares for what could be yet another explosive Supreme Court confirmation fight. Last week Ronald Reagan nominated the 41-year-old jurist as an Associate Justice of the court. Ginsburg, like Reagan's first choice, the defeated Robert Bork, is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Last month, as one Senator after another denounced Bork's ideological views, the President promised that his next nominee would be just as objectionable to liberals as Bork had been. Reagan may have made good...