Word: possession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corporate world to absorb the glut of Ph.D.s. Such universities as Harvard, Pennsylvania, Stanford, Virginia, Texas and U.C.L.A. have set up programs to retool humanities Ph.D.s for jobs in the business sector. Says Ed Escobedo, director of career planning at Stanford: "Humanists can do just about anything. They possess writing abilities, administrative abilities and the ability to work with values." Since 1978, New York University has been conducting summer crash courses in accounting, finance, economics and marketing for scholars from all over the country. Of the 271 graduates, nearly all have got jobs in the business sector. Few express regrets...
Mailer had managed to encompass the spectrum or American sensibility within himself. It was a sensibility that only the most expansive, sensitive and egotistical of American writers could claim to possess...
...Hedley Donovan, who served a year in the White House as a senior adviser to Jimmy Carter. Donovan offers a comprehensive commentary on the presidency. Having spent much of his career reflecting on nine Presidents from F.D.R. to the present, he also proposes the qualities that future aspirants should possess, not to get the job, but to do it well...
Well, we have proposed no fewer than 31 attributes of presidential leadership. There could be longer or shorter lists, but they would all have this in common: no one of the cited qualities is by itself rare, and indeed we all know people who possess a number of them. The problem is to find somebody with all these qualities, or all but a very few, who is willing and able to seek a major-party nomination. Better yet, to find a dozen such people, so each party can choose from among first-class candidates before presenting the electorate the final...
...turned out to be a true Stakhanovite: he overfulfilled his quota. When he died last week, he left to Yuri Andropov a military machine that is at least as powerful as the U.S.'s in some respects, and more powerful in others. The U.S.S.R. and the U.S. now possess approximately the same number of ballistic missile warheads-more than 7,000. These warheads are the fastest, most accurate and destructive long-range weapons in the two sides' arsenals of last resort. In Soviet eyes, they symbolize the U.S.S.R.'s attainment of equality with...