Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...floor of the House, it looks as if Burton has finally weathered the storm over his recent editing of the Web Hubbell tapes. One small success for the Democrats: They managed to block Burton's attempt to give immunity to four potential committee witnesses, whom Chairman Dan believes possess key knowledge of illegal foreign donations to the Clinton campaign. Now Newt Gingrich will transfer the immunity issue to a GOP-dominated committee -- and Burton lives to shoot pumpkins another...
With the influence the overseers possess, it is not surprising that the annual elections of five overseers are taken very seriously. Any Harvard degree-holder is eligible and can become a candidate with a nomination by another Harvard graduate...
Elbaz does seem to possess an innate understanding of women's lives that many male designers have lacked. "I just want women to enjoy themselves and be able to eat dessert," Elbaz told guests at the show. Talking about his clothes days later, he continued, "Women can walk in them and go from a cab to a party. They don't have to be zipped up and carried. They can wear them to work and not look like men." And he may know too that women often buy clothes for lives they think they'll have, the ones in which...
...came to Yiddish literature rather than having been brought up in it; it's something I struggled to possess," says Wisse, who was raised in what she calls the "polyglot multicultural atmosphere" of Montreal...
...veterinary students say that while Harvard administrators have done their best to help prepare them for the competition, "initiative" is still an essential trait they must possess. For example, students must line up the necessary animal experience required by veterinary schools without any official counseling...