Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the less-developed countries will achieve the 1980 per capita GNP level of the U.S., West Germany and other Western nations. At current rates, the lesser-developed countries will not reach the 1980 per capita GNP of the United States until the year 6007. They will not possess the 1980 wealth of West Germany until the year...
While Yale may actually edge out Harvard in the unqualifiable category of "undergraduate life," the key question in analyzing the rivalry is whether anyone at Harvard cares. In a true competition, both sides must possess or embody something desired by the other, and both sides must care. In the Harvard-Yale rivalry, Harvard does most of the possessing, and Yale does most of the caring...
...chief who pledged enforcement to be high on his list of priorities. And perhaps most alarming of all, Ruckelshaus has shown a decided bias towards "risk-management," or the balancing of the harms of dangerous substances against their benefits to society. Although not inherently wrong--all substances possess at least some risk--Ruckelshaus has utilized this approach too broadly, to the detriment of harmful substance banning. This approach, while less confrontational, is still fundamentally identical to the previous method employed...
Furthermore, readers can come away with the encouraging feeling that these new bleak writers possess such audacity and conviction that we may have to find them a more encompassing--and cheerful--name. With Juck, we can put the timid shibboleth "Post Modernism" behind us at the same time: when authors like Carol Bly look to the future they invoke a visionary power that threatens to dilate into a new brand of fiction, one in which the characters as well as the audience are party to the author's hopes, secrets, and best-guesses. Though cantankerous, disheveled Svea dies early...
...California desert to continue his test runs which seem every bit as heroic as his counterparts' trips into space. As portrayed by the playwright Sam Shepard, Yeager stands above the rest. His humility, perseverance and courage imply that even someone not lionized by the media may just possess all the right stuff as well. And the movie's reluctance to abandon Yeager, even after the rest have headed to Cape Canaveral, reveals Kaufman and Wolfe's sympathies: the success of programs like Project Mercury are due in large part to men like Yeager...