Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Buddy O'Neil is a teacher and a doer--not only does he possess a vast knowledge of the game, but he can break it down to the necessary fundamentals at any level. I've always been impressed by Buddy's outstanding ability to relate to both his players and fellow coaches...
...would argue that change would be more effectively accomplished by nominating students to serve on the CRR, who could then work for that same change. Such a group "within the system" would possess several significant advantages over a group "from without." First, the inside group would more adequately be able to assess what actually goes on inside CRR meetings. In the unlikely event that CRR ever did meet, those on the outside are barred from attending the meetings; CRR members are not. More importantly, however, I believe that greater commitment and continuity would be evidenced in a group selected...
...human reason persists as the best available tool to deal with complex temporal problems. Love, intuition and spirituality help somewhat but we have gotten ourselves into an economic and social interplay of forces which requires some intellectual delicacy and foresight to keep in place. Intellectuals possess substantial powers of reason and ought to be willing to use them in the denser underbrush of a complex society instead of only in its airy reaches...
Despite Soviet aid, the MPLA does not possess over-whelming military superiority in Angola. The U.S. and other Western powers have been arming FNLA/UNITA through Zaire and the CIA for more than a year, giving them all the latest military equipment including Mirage jets capable of bombing the MPLA capital from the Zaire border...
Underground party members in Spain were bereft of central command during the long exile, necessitating local and regional decision-making. The growth of illegal workers' commissions, dominated by party members over the last fifteen years, confirms the trend. These factory-based councils have ties to the PCE but possess limitless autonomy. Laborers set up the commissions to defend their wage-and-hour interests in a way that the Francoist Sindicacio Nacional does not. The councils have no set programs, no dues and no distinctions are made between members and non-members. The activist membership which the commissions channel into...