Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense it is not their inability to emigrate which constitutes the cruelest injustice against these Soviet Jews. Every nation must possess control over its borders and migration policy, or the very definition of sovereignty loses cogency. The more heartless treatment of these people by the authorities comes after their petition for emigration has been refused, or "delayed indefinitely." Often the head of the family loses his job. Families are split up, individuals are "relocated" far from their homelands, and harassment from the government, both petty and serious, becomes commonplace...
...scope and diversity of Harvard's collections are unparalleled at other campuses, but many can claim excellence in specialized areas, and smaller schools often possess masterpieces, art experts...
Although such responses are predictable, they are also intensely ironic. Granted that, at first, the thought of implementing an honor code sounds threatening, its ultimate effect is flattering. The proposition rests on the key, and by all means correct, assumption that students possess the maturity to govern certain portions of their academic affairs without supervision. The establishment of a code would remove from the classroom babysitters we've by now outgrown. To reject an honor code out of hand because of its one uncomfortable, albeit necessary aspect--the responsibility of one student for another's actions--is to focus prematurely...
...them to higher and higher levels of cyanide and saved the survivors. He then installed these superbugs in a brand new $10 million water-treatment plant, putting billions of them on each of the 48 rotating disks that make up the plant's main processing unit. Because the bacteria possess a sticky body surface, they pick up zinc, iron and other metals in the water as it passes over the plates. They also eat the cyanide that once threatened to kill the waterway's marine life. Barely a year ago, the creek was too toxic for trout, but now they...
...effective economic force to bear on management. Thus, it Harvard had sold its stock at any point in the last 10 years, as we were repeatedly asked to do, apartheid would still remain intact. The only difference would be that the University would have lost the influence we currently possess to try to persuade companies to oppose apartheid and improve the lot of their black employees. In the last analysis, companies may leave South Africa because of the instability produced by the protests of blacks in that country. They are not likely to be moved by the transfer of shares...