Word: possessed
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Saddam doesn't always have to defy the U.N. to achieve his goals. Although Security Council resolutions forbid Iraq to possess or develop weapons of mass destruction, they place no such ban on his conventional-arms industry. Using a clandestine technology-procurement network never fully dismantled, Saddam continues to buy spare parts for T-72 tanks in China and Russia, antitank and air-defense missiles from Bulgaria, and may now be turning to West European firms for critical electronics for his air force. At the same time, he has pressed forward with Iraq's ballistic-missile research at newly built...
...leather strap was "cruel and unusual." The decision in the case of Jackson vs. Bishop states that "the strap's use, irrespective of any precautionary conditions which may be imposed, offends contemporary concepts of decency and human dignity, and precepts of civilization which we profess to possess. "Nevertheless, six of the nine points listed to explain this finding concerned the difficulties of regulating corporal punishment...
...some cases, if the damage is too serious to be patched, p53 activates other genes that cause the cell to self-destruct. Mutations in p53, which have been detected in more than 50% of all human cancers, are thus extremely dangerous. In laboratory cultures, some cancer cells that possess mutant versions of p53 do not die when challenged by antitumor agents, while those that have normal p53 genes go belly...
...General Education program was established, at first experimentally, in 1946. The program was based on a book entitled General Education in a Free Society, which called for education to provide a "common and binding understanding of the society which [all citizens] will possess in common...
...know anything we can do about that," the Pentagon chief conceded, referring to U.S. intelligence reports that Pyongyang may already possess one or two atom bombs. "What we can do something about, though," he added, "is stopping them from building beyond that." Perry's statement is at odds with what President Clinton declared last November when he said that "North Korea cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb; we have to be very firm about it." That resolve has apparently been replaced by a recognition that the seepage of nuclear know-how is relentless. After surveying atomic-weapons programs...