Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mores of any one culture no matter how wrong they may seem. Not only is this a lazy intellectual argument, but it is also threatening to American democracy because our political system is built on very specific notions of what inherent legal rights individuals do and do not possess...
PBHA officials say that the HSA board has far more control than its board will ever possess. All of the members of the PBHA board will be selected by students and will also be subject to impeachment by students (with the exception of the appointed administrators...
...right, look. We possess no special dish about Lovett and Roberts. As for the primal emotions on The Road to Ensenada--feelings of guilt, betrayal, failure, vengefulness--these can also be found in something like 95% of all country songs written by people who were never married to Julia Roberts. But only about 5% are as potent as the tunes here--whoever inspired it, this is Lovett's solidest package in a long, ornery career...
Experienced auctiongoers understood that the estimated sales prices in the Sotheby's catalog reflected an assessor's evaluation of fair market value, i.e., what an object would bring if it did not possess the added cachet of having belonged to someone famous. For things owned by Jackie, fair market value was obviously, at least to those familiar with the occult workings of renown, just the starting point. The tension and electricity in the auction room hummed around the question: How high the markup...
...circus is just not where I am headed. That's okay, I assure myself--no one is expected to know the precise academic and professional course his or her life will take at such early stages in the game. Correction: No one outside of Harvard is assumed to possess such foresight. But amid the red-bricked buildings of Cambridge, we are not only expected but required to predict what we see ourselves doing for a while, if not forever...