Word: possession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...automatic cameras possess night vision, which enabled them to record the bloody fighting along the major streets leading to Tiananmen Square. That sharp footage, skillfully edited and played repeatedly on state-run China Central Television, shows only aggressive "counterrevolutionary" demonstrators attacking impassive soldiers. Zooming in on individual faces in the crowd, the editors created televised WANTED posters, complete with telephone numbers for viewers to call to report on the students frozen on the screen...
First introduced by Cray in 1976, supercomputers possess vast number- crunching power, which has become increasingly valued in applications ranging from oil exploration to the design of new drugs. Supercomputer sales are expected to reach $1.2 billion this year on shipments of 130 to 150 machines, up from $925 million in 1988. Control Data had sold 34 of its ETA- model supercomputers, or about 12% of the world's installed machines (vs. 63% for Cray...
...said his reputation "is the most important thing and the only really important thing. For my good name, which I intend to leave my children and my grandchildren, I will fight to the last ounce of conviction and energy that I possess...
WASHINGTON--With his position as the nation's highest elected Democrat in jeopardy, House Speaker Jim Wright mounted an emotional defense yesterday against serious ethics charges and declared he would "fight to the last ounce of conviction and energy that I possess...
...closing of the frontier (growing up alienated and getting a divorce are the dreariest). One cheerful result is that Wasps, to the disgust of Nathan Zuckerman's relatives, now know about Jewish families, shnorrers, yentas and all, and that Catholics are knowledgeable about those little ethnicities that Presbyterians possess but do not like to admit to. Northerners understand Southerners, at least on paper, and whites even know something of how life ferments, black among black...