Word: helm
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...popularity and political adroitness of General Colin Powell, the extraordinary Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who virtually dictated the Pentagon's opposition to admitting homosexuals to the armed forces and resisted military involvement in Bosnia. Last week Clinton finally got the chance to take the helm. Two chances, in fact -- one meticulously planned; the other fortuitous...
...NAFTA victory would be worth the expenditure of political capital. A dynamic international trading regime requires a firm, innovative leader at the helm. NAFTA will afford President Clinton that opportunity...
...Foreign conductors routinely rave about the quality of the American orchestral musician and applaud the high level of professional music education in the U.S. "In Europe we always have had the impression that the teaching in America is stronger and more serious," says conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, who takes the helm in Philadelphia next season...
...turmoil following De Klerk's decision to dismantle apartheid and release Mandela is a taste of things to come. "The pattern has already been set," warns Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party. "It is going to be turbulent, no matter who is at the helm...
When he took Harvard's helm two years ago, Rudenstine was faced with a pressing concern--naming most of his top lieutenants...