Word: possessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...motto for potential defendants today is "Be prepared." Some corporations are setting up million-dollar escrow funds to pay damage claims. Others are increasing their insurance coverage. One worried potential defendant upped its coverage last year from $5 million to $25.5 million. The prudent possessor of the deeper pocket: the Brentwood, N.Y., school district...
...world of "flaming, phallic rockets." During the next shuttle launch, sitting right there behind the skipper and his copilot, watching those blinking dials and video displays with her eagle eyes, will be Sally Kristen Ride, 32, former schoolgirl tennis star, Ph.D. in physics, cool, witty and attractive, and the possessor of just about as much of the Right Stuff as any man who ever preceded her into space...
...weeks Claude Pepper's junior. I have three grandsons who are trying to establish households on beginners' salaries. TIME acclaims Pepper's mindless thesis that the accretion of birthdays somehow ennobles their possessor. While you applaud, I will sit on my hands...
...talks progressed, apprehension grew at the Register (circ. 210,465), possessor of nine Pulitzer Prizes, that the Des Moines company would be swallowed whole by the larger Minneapolis company. Last week's agreement with its emphasis on preserving the independence of the papers allayed those fears. Said one relieved Register reporter: "I don't think we have to worry any more about a Minneapolis Mafia moving in." Register Editor Michael G. Gartner, who originally opposed the merger, agreed: "I feel it's the right thing to do; it will ensure that we have good, vigorous newspapers that...
...State University of New York at Oswego, proud possessor of thousands of the papers of our most underrated President, Millard Fillmore, rises once more to his defense. There is a quotation much more representative of the true Fillmore than the one used. In declining the honorary degree from Oxford University, he said, "I had not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgment, accept a degree that he cannot read." How many honorary degrees the world would have been spared if others had followed his example...