Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...programs by far, could not also be major sellers. But more recently, facing profit-sapping competition from cable TV and independent stations, the Big Three lobbied the FCC to change the rules. Last week the FCC gave the networks a piece of the action: they may produce and thus possess up to 40% of TV's prime-time shows. It will take the networks years to reap the rewards of the new ruling. Nonetheless, producers reacted angrily. "We made the best shows the networks ever had," lamented Lee Rich, executive producer of Dallas. "This decision kills the system." Responded...
Reports about the ozone layer are as maddeningly variable as the protective shield itself. Estimates of the problem's severity fluctuate virtually with each new set of measurements from the atmosphere. Unfortunately, the estimates do seem to possess one common thread: they are getting worse. Last week's announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency that the shield may be | disappearing nearly twice as fast in northern latitudes as many scientists had predicted is the most alarming report to date. The study noted that the loss was occurring both farther south, over the most populous regions of the U.S., and later...
Marino provided outstanding comic relief as the doddering Polonius, and Sheila MacDonald shines as the troubled Gertrude. Saddly, Steven Lucado's Claudius never reaches any kind of emotional intensity. In the final scenes he appears bland--the evil man who killed his brother in order to possess his kingdom and his wife never emerges in Lucando's performance...
...racist remarks. But there is no basis that I am aware of for enacting a policy to prevent these actions. Indeed, there is a basis in the type of society in which we live for not enacting such a policy (one of certain rights and freedoms that we all possess, if they have forgotten...
...gulf war. Chemicals would achieve no military advantage that cannot be attained through conventional means, and their use by the allies would compromise long-term U.S. efforts to eliminate them from the planet. The U.S. has no chemical arms in its gulf arsenal, nor does it possess any biological weapons, having unilaterally forsworn them in 1969. Should Saddam Hussein fight dirty, however, the U.S. and its allies can retaliate by using other potent weapons against Iraqi troops. Among them...