Word: musters
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...Script: Naturally, Chalabi's script has had to undergo several rewrites since it became clear to his backers in Washington that simply shoe-horning him into power would be a disaster. Unable to muster any significant support on the ground, Chalabi's star has waned as a contender for a top spot. Instead, he has sought to carve out an influential role for himself as a man who can mediate between opposing factions. He sought to help negotiate an end to the standoff between the Americans and Moqtada Sadr's men at Najaf, and has lately been mediating between...
...After] two weeks of really intense, hard mental labor,” Fish said, “[if] your team can muster 80 percent of [its] mental and physical resources during this time, that’s a victory. [Harvard] is a grind. They all put in their time, and they try to keep their hand in while they’re doing what they came here...
Though he was unable to muster an effort good enough to make the final—18 hundredths of a second off the qualifying time—Cromwell’s heat time earned him a spot in the consolation final and satisfied his goal. He then won the successive heat with a time that, had he been in the final, would have been good enough for seventh, 0.01 seconds out of sixth...
After a strong indoor performance against the other Ivy League teams, the result for the men outdoor was disappointing, if only because the team could not muster enough runners to improve upon its performance in the winter...
...support of that socialist Left on which Sonia Gandhi and the Congress Party will have to depend to muster a governing coalition. But Mrs. Gandhi made clear on Friday that the economic liberalization program overseen by Vajpayee was, in fact, launched over a decade ago by her husband, and her government would continue on the same track of opening India to the world economy. She may, of course, have been anxious to reassure India's stock market, which dropped to a four-year low on the news of her victory, but Congress is committed to a broadly similar economic program...