Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must take a more civilized approach toward the question of guns in our society. We are the only country in the civilized world allowing our citizens to possess as many lethal weapons as they can afford. And we pay a very dear price for this luxury. We lost more of our citizens from accidental gun deaths (28,626) during the period of 1961 to 1972 than the combined number of deaths of the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force personnel (26,919) suffered in Vietnam during the same period...
...also said that objective criteria might not be flexible enough to consider the special skills minority candidates possess. "Black lawyers will face tougher tests than white lawyers when they graduate," Pierce said. "They should be selected for different qualities...
...police regime. PRWM's research further disclosed that Polaroid had begun sales for the apartheid program in 1950 with the passing of the Population Registration Act, which required Africans to carry the 90 page passbook at all times (as well as requiring whites, coloreds and Asians to possess race-identity cards...
...OPEC nations cannot argue that the price of oil is set by production costs. They do not actually "produce" petroleum; they merely?by a quirk of geography?possess it. Foreign technologists found and developed the oil, and foreign risk capital built most of the rigs, pumps, refineries, pipelines and harbors. Only the existence of the OPEC cartel, with its ability to impose prices by fiat, keeps up the cost...
...parties are pledged to limit the inflationary effect of trade union wage claims by one means or another--the Tories place their trust in legal regulation and the Labourites in a formal but unlegislated "social contract" between the unions and the government. But neither party, once in power, will possess any means short of armed force to carry out its intentions. Both major parties are pledged to halt the staggering deterioration of British living standards--the Tories by fiscal austerity and wage-price controls, the Labourites by withdrawal from the common market and the wealth tax. This tax would produce...