Word: helm
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Several members of the museum's outgoing staff have suggested that Stager never demonstrated an interest in the museum's public activities since taking its helm six years...
...this an army attempt to reduce Francois's power. A military officer who watches Francois closely says Haiti's top cop has woven his own power structure and manages it with considerable skill. Whether in league with Cedras or not, Francois plainly intends to stay at the helm. "The military controls Haiti," he asserted recently, "and it always will." As yet, there is little reason to believe that will change anytime soon...
...school is probably best known in Cambridge for past principal Maria Louise Baldwin. Baldwin, referred to as the nation's first Black female principal in several historical school essays, was at the school's helm from 1889 until her death...
...comedy bits. In its search for someone to take over the time period where Letterman reinvented the talk show, NBC might have tried something truly different: a show with real interviews, for instance (a Larry King for the twentysomething generation), or maybe even (radical thought) a woman at the helm. O'Brien was the late-night host nobody knew. Now that he's arrived, it seems we know him all too well...
Kemp is no longer at the HUD helm, which means his empowerment policies might fade. But his presidential ambitions ensure that empowerment politics will remain visible. If Kemp is successful, his "Empowerment" umbrella--the group, its literature, its offshoot satellite series, its adjunct businesses and associated candidates--may achieve a shift in political thought, a reemphasis on the community as the center of political activity. Religious Right groups like Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition have been using the community-based tactic for years. The principle: field grass-roots candidates for local offices, thereby extending the political network before you enter...