Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree that it is dangerous for the Government to lend money to failing businesses. It is also impossible to specify the qualities an executive must possess in order to save a company. However, it is apparent that Iacocca has the unique combination of attributes that enables him to direct a comeback...
Hemingway made it his happiest hunting ground. Isak Dinesen, in Out of Africa, compared it to England in the 18th century, when an aristocrat might possess a "lovely landscape and a multitude of servants." For Cyril Connolly, however, the East African colony of Kenya was no paradise lost. It was the site of a 1941 murder that obsessed the British essayist and critic for a decade. By the time Connolly died in 1974, he had come tantalizingly close to finding the answer to the question that had mesmerized two generations of colonial society: Who shot Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl...
...have begun flight-testing two new models of ICBMs while improving the accuracy and hardening the silos of existing ones. "The Soviets have deployed more highly accurate MX-like ICBM warheads in each of the past three years than are contained in our entire MX program," said Weinberger. "They possess the ability to destroy a large percentage of our own Minuteman ICBMs in their silos, while still providing a substantial, and largely invulnerable, reserve...
...between nations has created the need for a universal language. Yet while economic and cultural exchange has been bilateral, linguistic "dialogue" has been markedly one-sided. French who wish to communicate with Americans must still nearly always do so in English. Parochialism keeps Americans well insulated; most do not possess even a working knowledge of another language, and few have felt any compunction to learn even the metric system, despite its use by nearly every other nation on the ever-shrinking planet...
...little Jew." He steps back into his own character long enough to slap her, twice and very hard. Shuttling between Palestinian enclaves in Lebanon, Charlie realizes that hostile aircraft have become new facts in her life: "It had not occurred to her, in her ignorance, that the Palestinians might possess no planes, or that the Israeli air force might take exception to fervent claims to their territory made within walking distance of their border...