Word: possessiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...nuclear club: the enrichment of uranium to weapons-grade level in gas centrifuges. The centrifuges take uranium-bearing ore or a mixture called yellowcake and separate out the 3% of uranium 235, which is fissionable, from the 97% of uranium 238, which is not. Iraq is known to possess 250 tons of yellowcake, most of it purchased in the 1970s from Brazil, China and Niger. In recent years the country has also begun producing its own yellowcake from mines in northern Iraq...
...Universities have been able to promote the idea that they are self-governing institutions who possess an expertise in the selection of academics which the courts' don't have," Gould says. "The courts have been intimidated by this line of argument...
...tired, poor, huddled masses seeking to get into the U.S. will now have a better chance if they also possess sought-after job skills. In a landmark revision of the nation's immigration laws, the second in five years, congressional conferees decided to raise the number of foreigners admitted annually to 700,000 starting in 1992, and to 675,000 after 1995 -- a significant increase over the current 490,000. The quota for newcomers with needed professional skills, such as scientists and engineers, would rise sharply, from...
PAKISTAN. Although the Bush Administration is not actually saying so, it has concluded that Pakistan has the atom bomb.* Washington's silence is eloquent. In order to continue supplying military and economic aid, Bush must certify to Congress that Pakistan does not possess nuclear weapons. Last year Bush did so; this year he did not. Military assistance and all new aid -- a potential $564 million for this fiscal year -- has been...
...other what he lacked: Sununu provided Darman with access to Bush; Darman provided Sununu, a Washington neophyte, with a knowledge of the workings of Congress, government and Washington. The two men meet each morning at 7:15 and speak by telephone 20, sometimes 30, times a day. Both possess quick, assertive minds; both have a weakness for pranks and practical jokes. And both men are fighters. But where Sununu wrestles, Darman boxes. Says a senior Administration official: "Sununu relies on his wits, on thinking off the top of his head. Darman is a planner. He's always five steps ahead...