Word: mustering
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...money becomes equated with raw political expression, then wealthy individuals, by virtue of birth or choice of profession, get more free speech than others. Without the law, a Wall Street lawyer gets a booming voice capable of permanently drowning out the mere squeak a field hand in California can muster. If campaign contributions really are a form of free speech, then the status quo means “expression” for only the wealthiest of Americans...
...Crimson’s comeback halted there, as Vanderbilt went on a six-minute, 14-point run while Harvard couldn’t muster a point...
However, the Crimson could not muster another run as Holy Cross (2-1) seemingly answered every change in momentum with a neutralizing basket...
...hoarding of food. Iraqis are even relatively calm on the subject of America. Many, of course, are bitter over the 12-year-long U.S.-supported embargo, which Baghdad claims has led to thousands of infants and elderly people dying from preventable diseases. Ammar Shamal, 21, an engineering student, could muster only this lament: "I don't know what America wants from us." Despite a recent rise in Islamic fundamentalism, encouraged in part by a government-sponsored religious campaign, few Iraqis seem to share Osama bin Laden's repugnance for Western culture. Sitting on the lawn of Al Mustansiriyah University, geography...
...Party goes about celebrating itself, few people around here can muster much interest. A few blocks away, the Daguanlou cinema presents the film CEO, a docudrama about refrigerator-maker Haier's aggressive move into the U.S. market. The Party forced movie houses to carry it as part of a nationalistic film festival pegged to the congress. In one showing the evening before the congress opened, a saintly Haier manager breaks off negotiations with a rapacious American who sneers that he'll "buy flowers for the graves" of his Chinese competitors. As the scene ends halfway through the screening, the entire...