Word: musters
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...elections, after almost two years of impatient waiting while the Administration and Congress focused on economic matters, the New Right and its allies at last had a fighting chance to pass the most controversial item on their social agenda: legislation to ban abortion. But after three futile attempts to muster the votes necessary to choke off a liberal filibuster, the most conservative Senate in more than a generation abandoned the effort and voted 47 to 46 last week to table the issue...
...Hardington knocked down a Columbia forward in the penalty box, and after complaining about three indirect kicks in the box early in the match, the Lions drew the penalty kick they said they deserved. Forward Tambi Kazbek converted from the charity spot, and the fatigued booters couldn't muster enough to equalize...
...miles away that some consultant tells you got good ratings there." In fact, he says, "That slightly tousled codger is going to exude more believability and integrity from the nail on the finger of his left hand than that pompadours, pampered announcer is ever going to muster. And isn't that what our news departments are all about, isn't that what you really want to sell: authority, believability, credibility and integrity...
...film director with a creative block. Guido Contini (Raul Julia) is a world-renowned movie mogul whose last three movies have been flops. He now has a contract for a new film and a producer, Liliane La Fleur (Liliane Monte-vecchi), who in her barbed tyrannical needling could pass muster as Erich von Stroheim in drag...
...barroom level. The brewers are in a battle for third place in the U.S. beer business, behind leader Anheuser-Busch and second-place Miller. Analysts believe that third largest is big enough to compete with the industry's leaders, but anything much smaller than that level cannot muster the advertising megabucks to fight off relative obscurity and low sales...