Word: possess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...research with pigeons, Herrnstein ponders such questions as: What does a simpleminded animal, like a pigeon possess to distinguish between a tree and a person that a complicated machine, like a computer, does not? What secret of classification is mother nature hiding and, if found, could we apply that discovery to create computers that could detect the difference between addresses in a post office...
...considerable degree pertains today. In announcing the test, the PRC proclaimed that it was developing atomic weapons for defensive purposes only and that it would never be the first to use such weapons nor would it ever use, or even threaten to use, them against nations which did not possess them...
Various moderate student leaders are now calling for a "moratorium" on the strike. Such a moratorium, regardless of what its proponents say, would amount to calling off the strike entirely. The strike is the only solid asset that students interested in bringing about real changes at Harvard possess, and should not be discarded until those real changes have been...
...hero, David Wark Griffith seemed more suited to be a child of 19th century lost causes than a pioneer of the art form of the future. But once the young actor walked into Biograph film studios on New York City's East 14th Street, the movies came to possess him as his romance of romances...
...pact of free association, giving the Marshall Islands control over their internal and foreign affairs, so long as it does not conflict with U.S. authority for security and defense. Such an agreement is the equivalent of telling an elephant it has the right to fly, knowing that it possess no such capability. As one Micronesia representative remarked...