Word: possess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Receivers: Penn doesn't possess a dominant receiver, but its receiving unit has been consistent throughout the season. Brent Novoselsky leads the Quakers with 15 catches, while Scott Sandler has posted a 15.8-yd. receiving average. But Penn won't go to the air unless it's positively necessary...
Money can do considerably more. It offers power, an almost unique form of power, not simply because it allows us to acquire and possess things but because it is we who determine its worth; we who say a ruby costs more than an apple; we who decide that a tennis court is more valuable than a book. ! Paradoxically, money creates a deep sense of powerlessness as well, since technically we are not able to provide money for ourselves; someone or something else must do that for us -- our employers or, until recently, our stocks. All that, money...
...college decided to nix the proposed deal after a group of landowners challenged the city's right of eminent domain, which allows the local government to take land from private holders, without negotiation, in exchange for a fair market price. Private owners possess some of land upon which Emerson had planned to build the new campus...
...RIGHTS the people possess, Madison and Hamilton felt, were so numerous that it would be impossible to avoid omitting many in a bill of rights. Worse still, the government and the courts might very well consider the rights specifically enumerated as the only ones the people possessed. Sound familiar...
...notion that people possess certain inalienable rights, even in the conduct of their familial affairs, is dismissed as a "poetic" musing by this Supreme Court nominee. Thus, for instance, the Constitution--despite its prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment"--does not forbid the sterilization of prisoners...