Search Details

Word: possessive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...concerts have become dull and predictable; musicians and audiences are suffering from repetitive routines and formula- type programming; there is an acute shortage of conductors who not only know their scores inside out but also are inspiring leaders; and there is just as great a shortage of administrators who possess artistic vision and imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Let's Do the Time Warp Again | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...know, I know: on your transcript it says that you took Rice Paddies. But do you really have a comprehensive overview of Chinese history, politics, art, and society from 2000 B.C. until the present? Or do you possess only a vague feeling of having been bored once in a huge lecture hall while slides of vases flashed on a distant screen...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: I Have My Pride | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

Receivers: Penn doesn't possess a dominant receiver, but its receiving unit has been consistent throughout the season. Brent Novoselsky leads the Quakers with 15 catches, while Scott Sandler has posted a 15.8-yd. receiving average. But Penn won't go to the air unless it's positively necessary...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Scouting Report | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

Money can do considerably more. It offers power, an almost unique form of power, not simply because it allows us to acquire and possess things but because it is we who determine its worth; we who say a ruby costs more than an apple; we who decide that a tennis court is more valuable than a book. ! Paradoxically, money creates a deep sense of powerlessness as well, since technically we are not able to provide money for ourselves; someone or something else must do that for us -- our employers or, until recently, our stocks. All that, money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Theory of the Panic | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...college decided to nix the proposed deal after a group of landowners challenged the city's right of eminent domain, which allows the local government to take land from private holders, without negotiation, in exchange for a fair market price. Private owners possess some of land upon which Emerson had planned to build the new campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

Previous | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | 200 | 201 | 202 | 203 | 204 | 205 | Next