Word: musters
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...system is designed both to eliminate corruption by removing administrative authority from elected officials and to allow for representation of all significant minorities on the town's nine-member council. Under the Proportional Representation voting system every group that can muster ten per cent of the vote is assured a councilor...
Andover could not muster another come-from-behind rally as the game rushed toward its finish. The visitors had to settle for only one more goal, a last minute tally that tightened the final score...
...Marco Williams set up Steve Smith for Harvard's third goal. As they had in the first half, fullbacks Bill For-bush, Dave Rand and Ralph Earle, along with sweeper Antonio Ardila, moved the ball up to the offense and shut off the few scoring rushes that Amherst could muster...
...without any coherent energy policy. Lacking the votes to get his own programs passed, Ford can only attempt to bludgeon the Democrats into considering them by vetoing their party's legislation-not only on energy but also on other matters. The Democrats, despite their huge majorities, usually cannot muster the strength to override (an exception: both houses last week voted to enact a $7.9 billion aid-to-education bill, overcoming a presidential no). "This has become a Government by veto," lamented Rhode Island Democrat John O. Pastore after the Senate's oil vote...
...Congress is almost sure to extend through next year $9.4 billion in tax cuts enacted for 1975, and the Administration will have little choice but to go along. Still deeper tax cuts might be needed too. To get them enacted, the White House and Congress would have to muster a far greater willingness to compose their differences than is indicated by the long and sorry record of their wrangling over energy...