Word: possession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...games held the potential to make such an epic difference for so many teams. In all of baseball's four divisions, the pennant races will not be officially decided until this week, the final seven days of the season. Only the San Francisco Giants, astride the National League West, possess breathing room ahead of the late-charging San Diego Padres. Powered by outfielder Kevin Mitchell (46 homers) and first baseman Will Clark (109 RBIs), the Giants may boast the game's most titanic twosome since the Yankee era of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. Small wonder that manager Roger Craig...
...down to the equal stocks that Bush proposed, the Soviet would have to make deeper cuts since they are thought to have more chemical weapons on hand. Only the two superpowers acknowledge having poison gas, but Bush said more than 20 nations either possess them or are capable of producing them...
While Lem believes that his players possess the requisite skills to succeed, he believes that they must develop as a team and foster greater mental toughness...
...inevitable that an economically reviving Germany would increase its pressure for major revisions in the Versailles Treaty. When the new President Roosevelt proposed the abolition of all major offensive weapons, Hitler was quick to agree -- easy enough since Germany had been forbidden to possess such weapons. "Germany would also be perfectly ready to disband her entire military establishment . . . if the neighboring countries will do the same," Hitler declared. That "if" was the shield behind which he planned to rearm. When Britain and France declined, Hitler indignantly announced that Germany was leaving the Geneva disarmament talks and the League of Nations...
Federal law requires that ambassadors "should possess clearly demonstrated competence," including knowledge of the language, history and culture of the country where they will serve. Several of Bush's diplomatic picks appear to know next to nothing about the countries to which they are being sent. What they have shown is a deep loyalty to Republican Party causes and, in many cases, the wherewithal to prove that loyalty with cash. Among them...