Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shares of gold-and silver-mining companies leaped on Wall Street, as did the stocks of many so-called asset companies. Unlike financial, service or processing firms, the corporations that possess coal, oil, timber, copper or other resources have assets that retain value no matter what happens to inflation, the dollar or the economy...
...answers do not have the rich mix of history, fact and humor that J.F.K.'s years of reading produced. Nor does Ted possess the genuine interest in his surroundings that Bob carried everywhere. Ted is vaguely indifferent to Iowa, a state that takes learning to love. Yet, all things considered, Kennedy is up to the family tradition in political performance. He could have held...
Just the name Harvard created respect. They looked upon me with respect not because of knowledge I might possess, but because I was going to Harvard...
...vast majority of us do not possess the intelligence, the imagination, or the spiritual courage to create for ourselves comprehensive ethical systems. We require guides. I believe that most modern college students, especially those of middle class background enrolled at prestige institutions, not only have little knowledge of past human experience but, worse yet, have no sense that that experience is in any sense relevant to their own lives. They are culturally uprooted...
...father. To foreigners they seemed a dismal, squalid lot-the men with their scraggly beards and hair, the women with their inevitable head scarves. Though the peasants were in fact a rich repository of folklore and folk art, intellectuals invested them with other qualities. The populists believed them to possess primitive virtues that were unadulterated by the venality of the outside world. Conservatives hailed the village commune, or mir, as a cohesive force binding the empire, while the radicals perceived the mir as a ready-made basis for socialism. In his later years, Tolstoy saw the peasant as a religious...