Word: possession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case of Habsburg Spain, Kennedy's own telling of the story makes it clear that what doomed Philip II and his successors was not economic decline but the failure to organize the empire properly. Similarly, Argentina, Brazil, India and China today possess enormous resources, but none are great powers. Kennedy fails to examine the factors that weld a people together, a prerequisite to great power status: nationalism, idealism, education, and a stable political system...
...electronic calculators, low-grade steel, shoddy carpeting. But the East bloc's human exports are often top of the line. Many of the most talented performers have been trained from as young as age six at rigorous state-run sports or music institutions. Other stars, circus artists among them, possess skills that are centuries-old specialties of Eastern Europe. Yet Communist governments are so hungry for hard currency to help finance growing debts to Western lenders and pay for imported products that they routinely mark down the price of their talent by one-half to one-fifth the going rate...
Following the leads of past Crimson standout netminders Grant Blair and Dickie McEvoy, Devin is the top goaltender in the ECAC. Devin is the only ECAC goalie to possess a goals-against average of under three goals per game...
...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...
...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...