Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Letters now come into the Executive by the millions. There are eleven Cabinet posts to Washington's four. Ford, like Nixon, has avoided Cabinet Secretaries who possess any political clout of their own that would give them substantial independence (the exception is Kissinger). Washington's chief Cabinet members were the nation's two outstanding leaders after Washington himself: Jefferson and Hamilton. As long as they stayed in office, Washington kept them under control. Under Washington, the personnel of the total Federal Government was 350. In March 1975 the number of employees in the Executive Branch alone totaled...
...Bonn-Brasilia deal. Washington argued that because a full cycle complex had never been sold to any nonnuclear nation, West Germany would be setting a dangerous precedent that could only increase the chance of nuclear proliferation. So far, only the U.S., the Soviet Union, China, France and Britain possess the costly, complicated plants to produce enriched uranium. All other nations must come to these powers for nuclear fuel for reactors. Washington pointed out that U.S. firms are strictly prohibited from selling enrichment plants abroad; Brazil, in fact, would like to have bought the full cycle from U.S. manufacturers...
...corpse that will not stay put. The body of a black man, apparently murdered, appears on Mehring's land. He has it buried. A flood brings it up again. The constant resurrection shatters the farmer. As the book ends, Mehring comes to understand that he can never possess the property that the blacks truly own and he can only occupy...
Coldly Realistic. In sum, Levy persuasively reasons that paying for oil will continue to be a burden, heavy even for the industrial states and crushing for the many poor countries that do not possess oil. He fears that attempts by each nation to cure its own deficit could lead to "a mushrooming of new barriers to trade" that oil importers would erect, not against OPEC but against each other. In his coldly realistic report, Levy predicts it will take at least three or four more years than the banks anticipate-or roughly until 1983-84-before the problem begins...
...Riesman explains, comes in two varieties: the "aristocratic" and the "democratic." In the former version, decisions about who wins and who loses the competition are the prerogative of the people at the top of the system. Without any formalized standards to guide them, one simply hopes that the judges possess at least a modicum of fairness. In the "democratic" or "common-man" version of meritocracy, one can be less dependent on the judges' individual qualities, since by means of uniform tests and other impersonal criteria the question of who wins and who loses becomes much less a matter...