Word: possession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news that we possess the resources, technology and the imagination to adequately feed all of the four billion human beings who walk the earth; what we lack is the will...
...reverse discrimination? Should shows about blacks be held to a higher standard of relevance, sensitivity and accuracy than those about whites? Though any hard and fast rules would be foolish, an effort to do just that might help correct some deep-seated racial misunderstanding. Whites know about whites, and possess a built-in reality adjuster that makes all the necessary corrections and allowances for exaggeration and stupidity when whites are being portrayed. Blacks know something about whites too. But whites in the U.S. still do not know all that much about blacks; most whites pos sess no automatic focus mechanism...
...effect, students are being paid lip service regarding their role in University policy; the faculty and administration possess ultimate control of all policy decisions...
...government that maintained its legitimacy only as long as the assembly lines were pouring out increasing numbers of cars, clothes and automatic dishwashers, the French economy has grown an average of 5 to 6 per cent annually. In 1973, the Hudson Institute predicted France would come to possess the most powerful economy in Western Europe...
Dartmouth College President John G. Kemeny, an eminent mathematician, envisions great benefits from the computer, but in his worst-case imaginings he sees a government that would possess one immense, interconnecting computer system: Big Brother. The alternative is obviously to isolate government computers from one another, to decentralize them, to prevent them from possibly becoming dictatorial. But that would require considerable foresight, sophistication?and possibly a tough new variety of civil rights legislation...