Word: possession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months WSGP has bought up five financial institutions, including Honolulu Federal Savings & Loan (assets: $1.7 billion), Southern California Savings ($1.5 billion) and World Trade Bancorp ($100 million), all for $119 million. The group's method is to look for bargains among sinking thrifts that also possess attractive real estate holdings. Then WSGP strips the institutions of problem loans and injects them with fresh capital, with the aim of selling out at big profits...
...rise to world dominance, economically and militarily, and now history is righting itself. A country should only have as much power as her population and natural resources allow, Kennedy believes. Because we have only 16 percent or so of these commodities, when history has fixed itself, we will possess only that much economic and military power...
...conclusion they lead to is not in this country's best interests. They are based on a number of wrongheaded assumptions. First, in a world of nuclear weapons, a country's economy and natural resources are not commensurate with her military power. A country, such as Great Britain, can possess greater military power than Italy, even though the latter may have a larger share of population and world economy...
...whole male-female issue, I don't think Martina Navratilova could beat Ivan Lendl, nor Steffi Graff defeat John McEnroe. That is to be expected, with the strength advantage that men normally possess over women...
What legitimacy Chun does possess he owes in part to solid support from the Reagan Administration. In 1981 Chun became one of the first foreign heads of state to be received by the new U.S. President. Richard Walker, a former U.S. Ambassador to Seoul, recently described the 1985 South Korean parliamentary elections, which were criticized by many observers as having been weighted in the government's favor, as "generally free and fair." The current U.S. ambassador, former CIA Official James R. Lilley, testified at his Senate confirmation that he regarded South Korea's national security as more important than democratic...