Word: possess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Bougas, the remainder of the netwomen will possess a youthful show. Second singles will be handled by junior Martha Roberts, while junior captain Meg Meyer will aid the team from the fourth spot. Leslie Miller, Kristin Mertz and Patty Vitale are each vieing for the 5th and 6th places...
...arrival of new neighbors is likely to brush even the most stable of home owners with a tinge of paranoia. Property values are at stake, after all, not to mention the territorial imperative. Will the newcomers possess large marauding dogs or, worse, teen-age children? Will they fill up their front yard with rusting automobiles, set up a permanent garage sale in their driveway, sell cosmetics or encyclopedias door to door, deal hard drugs, paint their house pink, fire pistols randomly at passing cars and pedestrians . . . ? Such fears usually remain unrealized, but they still retain the power to induce night...
...Americans imagine their country. Many of them remain sunnily confident. But the old interpretations, the old American theology, no longer work very well. Americans invented themselves in the first place, and then were interminably reinvented by the rest of the world. Perhaps more than most peoples, they need to possess an idea of themselves, a myth of themselves, an ex planation of themselves. It is time for them to start inventing and imagining again...
...Much of the knowledge I have accumulated thus far would be difficult to duplicate in classroom situations. It is largely a process of trial and error. Fortunately I seem to possess talent in the field of business, so the errors I make are fewer and fewer all the time and, more importantly, less severe." Spitz said, "Certainly some coursework would have been helpful and I regret not taking advantage of business classes offered at Indiana...
Marglin argues that while most professors here view him as a partisan, they deny that they themselves possess an ideology. "Many Harvard professors think of ideology as something the other fellow has," Marglin comments, adding that the prevailing attitude at Harvard is that the study of the social sciences can be objective, and this results in a limited spectrum of political ideologies here. He points to the preponderance of he main outlook in the Economics Department: a right-wing, conservative, free-market one. "If you compare my department's political-cultural spectrum to the world's, it by no means...