Word: possessed
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...start with a simple proposition: no one wants Iran to have the Bomb. The country doesn't actually possess nukes yet, but much of the world suspects that it is hell-bent on building them under the cover of its nuclear-energy program--and the loose-cannon bluster of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad only reinforces that conviction. That's why diplomats and nuclear watchdogs in the U.S., Europe and other parts of the world have spent so much time trying to stop Iran's nuclear program in its tracks...
...Richard F. Thomas, a member of the Faculty Council and chair of the Classics department, suggested that undergraduates might not be aware of the full range of attributes that a particular candidate might possess...
...State Department previously withheld confirmation of Bakshi’s account because federal law requires that the government possess a waiver from an American citizen before releasing information about that person...
...money off this new resource: a cheap R&D lab the approximate size of the earth's online population. In fact, they have been slow to embrace it. Admittedly, it's counterintuitive: until now the value of a piece of intellectual property has been defined by how few people possess it. In the future the value will be defined by how many people possess it. You could even imagine a future in which companies scrapped their R&D departments entirely and simply proposed questions for the global collective intelligence to mull. All that creative types like myself would have...
...questions that help students connect the dots of otherwise loosely connected material. History 10a should continue to be taught and continue to be required of history concentrators. The History Department may decide to establish a proficiency test of some form in order to excuse the few students who already possess the background the course provides, but for most concentrators, taking the course is a necessity. Moreover, if History 10a is failing to meet its worthy mission of providing history concentrators with a background—a “how we got here” narrative—rather then...