Word: musters
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...Neil Yaniky goes to a local Hyatt to hear a self-help guru named Tom Rodgers tell the paying guests how to get other people to stop "crapping in your oatmeal." Yaniky adopts the speaker's recommended mantra--"Now is the time for me to win"-- but can't muster the appalling selfishness to act on those words and kick his deranged sister out of his house...
...Kosovo, the West went to war to stop ethnic cleansing; in Sierra Leone the international community appears unable to muster the will and resources to stop a ragtag guerrilla band that has already killed and mutilated tens of thousands more people than Slobodan Milosevic's forces ever did. The U.S. moved Monday to shore up the beleaguered U.N. peacekeeping mission to the war-torn west African country by offering to fly some 700 troops from Bangladesh into Sierra Leone, and also to provide logistical support should nearby Nigeria choose to resume its policing role in the former British colony...
...amendment offered last month by Jeffrey A. Letalien '01 and David B. Orr '01 to address the question of committee assignments in a downsized council failed to muster the necessary three-fourths majority...
However, even though the runs were there for the Crimson tonight, the hits were not. Harvard was able to muster only five hits, and most of its offense came as a result of the inability of Yale pitching to get the ball over the plate. Harvard garnered three RBI walks in the game...
...even happy to underwrite former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's constant efforts to sabotage it, but kissing up to China might offend some traditionally pro-Israel GOP conservatives. Still, Barak might not tempt fate unless he was fairly secure in Israel's ability, if push comes to shove, to muster greater congressional support than its critics. After all, he ultimately knows where his bread is buttered...