Word: possessed
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...phrase to the language and turned its author into a much sought-after consultant-prophet; Gilder's Wealth and Poverty (1981), a ringing endorsement of capitalism and supply-side economics, became a sacred text for members of the first Reagan Administration. Both have eagerly tackled subjects in which they possess no formal training. And both are relentlessly, almost wearyingly optimistic about what the future holds for those willing to embrace...
COLLECTORS ARE CRAZY, A LITTLE or a lot -- gently mad or glittery-eyed gaga. Nuttiness is the only sane explanation for wanting to possess every matchbook cover or baseball card ever printed or for paying $47 million to own a Van Gogh. Or trying to collect every fact in the space-time continuum by memorizing an encyclopedia or deciding to experience one of every kind of lover...
...were not all blood brothers. The three main groups, classified by language, were found to be genetically distinct, suggesting that three separate populations from Asia may have crossed the Bering Strait at different times to settle in America. The Amerind, who predominate in most of North and South America, possess only type O blood; among the Na-Dene, who cluster in Alaska, Canada and the U.S. Southwest, O prevails but A makes an appearance; in the Alaskan and Canadian Inuit (Eskimo), A, B, AB and O blood groups show the pattern seen in the rest of the world...
...every student on this campus who possess even an ounce of decency to join with the Harvard Republican Club in denouncing this kind of hate mongering. Whether you agree with Reagan's politics or not, there is no moral justification for jeering at a dying man. As for Mr. Conley and the editors who printed his strip, we suggest that you send a letter of apology to President Reagan and print it in these pages. I am not sure to what audience you thought you were appealing; I can easy think of one man who would have laughed...
...their testy exchange last week, Clinton and Yeltsin reconvened at a ceremony that formally put into effect the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks treaty. Under terms negotiated in 1991, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan will destroy all their nuclear warheads, while the U.S. and Russia will greatly reduce the numbers they possess. The fact that the ceremony went almost unnoticed testifies to how effectively Washington and Moscow have worked to dispel the once rampant dread of nuclear holocaust. On a lower level, Yevgeni Kozhokin, director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, points out that thousands of ordinary Americans and Russians...