Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University must produce a new pre-med plan to ameliorate the intense competition that turns many Harvard pre-meds into computers of recall that do not possess dedication to an America of healthier people, but rather, dedication to their individual "professional" careers. Pre-med students taking introductory biology, inorganic chemistry and physics have a choice of two routes to follow, thus alleviating some of the pressure caused by the existence of only one course. But even this system, as now conceived, discourages non-pre-med students and non-science concentrators from studying science except to fulfill lower-level...
...same time, even this important aim has its limitations. Several fields of concentration cannot properly be said to possess a distinctive discipline or mode of inquiry; the study of government, or political science, is often cited as an example. In addition, mastering a discipline is no easy matter. The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry. Even this capacity may erode over time if it does not relate to experiences and problems that recur in the student's later life...
Americans have a penchant for forgiving crooks once punishment has been inflicted. Customarily, applicants for such generosity have stolen on a grand scale, or possess a fascinating personality. Willie Sutton comes to mind. Now there is James Riddle Hoffa. The former head of the Teamsters Union was released from prison by presidential clemency on Dec. 23, 1971. Since then he has been invited to appear on network television, asked his political preferences, interviewed sympathetically by newspaper reporters and given a respectful hearing by a Senate subcommittee. By the time' he makes his move to take over the Teamsters again...
Some biologists believe that humanity begins at conception because the fertilized egg cell contains human DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). Manhattan Lawyer Cyril Means Jr., among others, finds this line of reasoning unconvincing: each sperm and egg also contain DNA, yet hardly anyone would argue, even metaphysically, that spermatozoa and ova possess the value of human beings...
...miscast, not as to skill, but in terms of temperament. Madame Ra-nevskaya, who cannot bring herself to uproot the orchard and build a housing development, ought to be enveloped in actressy vanity and a flighty inability to cope. Yet Gloria Foster displays little vanity and seems to possess such granitic strength as to have sold the estate and axed the first cherry tree herself. Lopakin, the son of a serf, who buys the Ranevskaya property at auction, is played a shade too unctuously by James Earl Jones, who also lacks the quality of a steely, patient peasant finally coming...