Word: possess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partition plan now under consideration will reserve much less land for the Hopis than they now officially possess. But it will eventually force thousands of Navajos and some Hopis to leave where they live and take what some call "the second Long Walk." For many caught on the wrong side of the meandering new line, life is about to turn into a latter-day Palestinian partition story. Some traditionalists have refused to go, despite a substantial offer of resettlement money. "I live inside four mountains, and I pray to them," says Navajo Katherine Smith, 60, who spent a night...
...system are engaged to be the first in the line of fire to save it. By 1985, say Pentagon projections, the Army will be 45% black. The troubling part is not that blacks and other minority groups are incapable of defending the nation well (on the contrary, they often possess the brains and esprit some others lack), or that they should not be allowed to improve their lot with military careers. The difference is that guarding the nation is not just another job; it is a moral obligation involving jeopardies and commitments that cannot safely be jobbed out, in effect...
...makes its emergency loans conditional on the receiving nations' adopting a policy of "austerity." The assumption behind this philosophy is simple: Third World governments have lived beyond their means. Their governments are spending resources which the nations do not possess--handing out pieces of a pie which do not exist. The only answer, the IMF believes, is to cut the government budget, raise taxes, and devalue the currency...
...believe that G. Gordon Liddy [April 21], despite his idiosyncrasies, should be honored and admired for his seriousness of purpose, iron discipline and especially his unfaltering loyalty to both the U.S. and the President. Few people today possess such qualities in our Government...
Eventually, of course, Yoda relents and instructs Luke in the ways of the Jedi and the uses of the Force, that strange, mystical power that all Jedis possess. "Life creates it and makes it grow," the little gnome explains. "Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we . . . Feel the flow. Feel the Force around you." Luke does, to a degree. By an exertion of will he can move rocks and other small objects-like a wildly beeping and protesting Artoo Detoo. Yet when he tries to raise his ship, which is mired in the swamp, Luke fails...