Word: possessives
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...RIGHTS the people possess, Madison and Hamilton felt, were so numerous that it would be impossible to avoid omitting many in a bill of rights. Worse still, the government and the courts might very well consider the rights specifically enumerated as the only ones the people possessed. Sound familiar...
...notion that people possess certain inalienable rights, even in the conduct of their familial affairs, is dismissed as a "poetic" musing by this Supreme Court nominee. Thus, for instance, the Constitution--despite its prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment"--does not forbid the sterilization of prisoners...
...months WSGP has bought up five financial institutions, including Honolulu Federal Savings & Loan (assets: $1.7 billion), Southern California Savings ($1.5 billion) and World Trade Bancorp ($100 million), all for $119 million. The group's method is to look for bargains among sinking thrifts that also possess attractive real estate holdings. Then WSGP strips the institutions of problem loans and injects them with fresh capital, with the aim of selling out at big profits...
...rise to world dominance, economically and militarily, and now history is righting itself. A country should only have as much power as her population and natural resources allow, Kennedy believes. Because we have only 16 percent or so of these commodities, when history has fixed itself, we will possess only that much economic and military power...
...conclusion they lead to is not in this country's best interests. They are based on a number of wrongheaded assumptions. First, in a world of nuclear weapons, a country's economy and natural resources are not commensurate with her military power. A country, such as Great Britain, can possess greater military power than Italy, even though the latter may have a larger share of population and world economy...