Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that while an American has dealings linked with a computer at least ten times a day, the average Soviet citizen comes in contact with a computer perhaps once every six months, if then. Though the Soviet State Bank is the world's largest banking operation, it does not possess a modern computerized check-processing and accounting system. Stores do not use computers for charge accounts, since Soviet citizens are not permitted this capitalist excess, and they have not computerized other parts of their operations, like inventory control. Aeroflot, the Soviet national airline, in 1975 bought two Univac 1106 computers...
...lawyer by training, Luce had had limited experience with utilities. He was administrator of an Oregon power company in the 1960s and later showed managerial talent as an Under Secretary of the Interior during the Johnson years. He seemed to possess the kind of even-keeled candor needed to deal with irate customers and fretful stockholders...
...lies a blatant sexist attitude which suggests that women wearing nothing but loosely buttoned men's shirts three sizes too large for them, or women who irresponsibly knock over lamps, smash holes in shipbottoms, who make themselves a general and continual pain are excusable if--and only if--they possess enough sex appeal in their baby toenail to put an army of men on the scent for months. Beyond the purely visual level, Deneuve's appeal lies in the certain restlessness perceivable in her every move, the untameable craziness that forces her to stop at nothing--stealing, biting and screaming...
Cats may not possess nine lives, but some could make the Guinness Book of World Records with only one. Tom Cadillac, so christened for his feat, was accidentally shipped in a Cadillac chassis from the U.S. to Australia-a seven-week trip at the time-and was still alive on arrival. He had eaten the engine grease and the car's instruction manual. Chat Beau, a four-year-old male, found his human family in Texarkana...
Paul is not known to possess any sickness unto death, but rumors persist that he might resign, possibly on his 80th birthday. No Pope has resigned for centuries, however, and Paul has never indicated that he is considering it. Moreover, he would be highly unlikely to quit on his birthday since that would disrupt the Synod of Bishops that opens Sept. 30, which has been in preparation over the past three years. Paul's moves last week have brought the voting membership of the College of Cardinals up to 119 out of the full 120 permitted. He also named...