Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here is on the President to define exactly what it is about his office that court process commanding the production of evidence cannot reach there. To be accurate, court process in the form of a subpoena duces tecum has already issued to the President, and he acknowledges that... courts possess authority to direct such subpoenas to him. A distinction is drawn, however, between authority to issue a subpoena and authority to command obedience to it. It is this second compulsory process that the President contends may not reach him. The burden yet remains with the President, however, to explain...
...tunnels at Europa Center objects in glass cases surround one: rocks and jewels in a shop--crystal, metal, wood, leather, fur--objects which could possess all the properties of a ring of invisibility or seven-league boots. They are displayed almost theatrically, lit from top and bottom, hanging on clear strings, supported by glass shelves or plastic stands, and like the stone totems or magic tokens at Dahlem, picked out of a surrounding darkness by spotlight. There, carefully designed panels and charts locate the object on grids of time and space, and, like the advertising in Europa Center, give...
While peace in South Viet Nam remains as distant as it was six months ago, a different kind of settlement appears possible for Cambodia. There the Khmer insurgents have gained the initiative and now possess the ability to capture Phnom-Penh if they want-thus winning the war. The militarily and psychologically weakened Lon Nol regime has little chance of gaining any compromises from the victorious insurgents, especially with all American air support due to halt...
...Shelter use the camera to merely broadcast and reproduce the excitement generated by the music and the performers themselves. Rock and film sometimes mesh as neatly as bass and lead guitar. Gimme Shelter is at its best when the colored lights play over Jagger's body, and the Stones possess the stage. Offstage, without the protection of its excellent music, it grows tiresome...
...Canadian Prime Minister, has been more seen than heard from. But when she gave her first full interview as First Lady to the Toronto Star, Margaret turned out to be very much her own woman: "Even now that we're married, we still don't feel we possess one another. Pierre doesn't have any expectations for me to always be at his side, and I don't have any expectations of him to always be at mine." For now, however, Margaret's expectations center on her 18-monthold son Justin and a second baby...