Word: musters
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...corporate income taxes. The most sensational scandal involved a ring of party and government officials on Hainan Island who sold $1.5 billion of goods illegally imported through Hong Kong, including Mercedes limousines and color TV sets, before they were caught. It is at least possible that conservatives can muster support for the idea that the only way to stamp out corruption is to cut back on modernization...
...coming months, Mandelson will certainly need all the political skills he can muster. The World Trade Organization ( wto) is trying to prod the world's trade ministers into a new multilateral accord. Trade experts say the prospects for a deal are looking better because of progress on one of the big stumbling blocks: U.S. and E.U. subsidies to their sugar growers, which distort world market prices. But French officials are nervous about the wto and some are deeply suspicious of Mandelson, viewing him as Blair's man in Brussels. That could make it hard for him to persuade Chirac...
Outside of that high point, though, the season ended up looking much like the 2003 campaign. Last year it was Columbia, this time it was Dartmouth, but both results were the same: the Crimson could not muster enough down the stretch to take the Ivy championship...
...front of a raucous crowd at the Murr Center, Harvard dropped the CSA Team Championship match to Trinity 7-2. With his hip still bothering him, Broadbent dropped down to the No. 4 slot on the ladder and easily defeated his opponent Yvain Badan. But only Blumberg could muster another victory for the Crimson, and Harvard ended 2005 still looking up at the Bantam dynasty...
...outdoor Heptagonal Championships, the Crimson could not muster enough to dig itself out of the bottom rung of the Ivy League, as both teams finished eighth in the final conference meet of the year...