Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...m.p.h. on level ground. Some Western armor experts fear the T-72 may be able to outperform laser-equipped tanks, such as the British Chieftain, the West German Leopard 2 and the older U.S. M60 A2, now deployed in Western Europe; none of these possess as sophisticated a targeting system as the new Soviet model's. The U.S. does not expect to deploy its new-generation XM1 tank (called "the best in the world" by U.S. Army Secretary Clifford Alexander Jr.) until 1979 at the earliest. Also making a rare public appearance last week were new Soviet...
That is an angry exaggeration: Schlesinger is conceded even by most of those who disagree with him to possess a first-class mind, and he and Carter are grappling with a peculiarly baffling problem to which no one has proposed a wholly satisfactory solution. Businessmen argue that Carter's taxes would only feed inflation without reducing consumption much; the Administration contends that fuel costs to the consumer must go up and business cannot expect to take all the increase in profits. The outcome, so far, is a debilitating uncertainty: the House passed Carter's program almost intact...
...Cologne auto-plant worker, Wallraff was drafted into the army in 1963, denied release as a conscientious objector, declared to possess an "abnormal personality" and then discharged. Wallraff recounted that Catch-22 experience for a small leftist magazine, and the wide public notice he received persuaded him to seek new roles for his "abnormal personality." He spent three years working at various blue-collar jobs for a 1966 expose of the squalor and drudgery that can afflict industrial workers in affluent West Germany. He posed as a drunkard and later a mental patient to uncover prejudice and hypocrisy among government...
...with distribution--with dividing the pie--when it is clear that the great majority of people can raise their living standard only by producing a larger pie. Certainly, this development seems to contradict the basic economic precept that people desire to simply increase the amount of material goods they possess as their primary economic motivation...
...self-styled "street corner scholar" has encountered major difficulties in obtaining recognition of the validity of his methods from the established medical community, and all indications suggest he will continue to run up against similar reactions in the future. Humes does not possess a medical degree, and documentation on the ultimate success of his treated patients is lacking. Humes has not operated one of his "crash pad clinics" for the detoxification of addicts for over a year, choosing in recent months to concentrate on the anxiety afflictions of elderly Cambridge residents. And his current legal difficulties do not promise...