Word: helming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ghost ship; you heard the creak of the rigging and the groan of the timbers and sometimes even glimpsed the crew on deck. But which of the crew had the helm...
Cambridge Superintendant of Schools William C. Lannon will not be among those returning to school when the first bell rings next fall. After nine years at the helm of the 14 school, 8000-student system. Lannon has been dismissed by the Cambridge School Committee, and he will leave office when his current contract expires on August...
...Soviet people, Andropov seemed a study in gray, as enigmatic as the fleeting smile he showed now and again in official photographs. Given Andropov's years at the helm of the Committee for State Security (in Russian, Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, or KGB), some of his countrymen feared that he would turn out to be a reconstructed Stalinist, intent on imposing order on a society grown lax and corrupt in Brezhnev's final years. Others wishfully thought that he might emerge as a liberal, eager to improve relations with the West and reform the Soviet Union's cumbersome...
...Soviets hung out mourning flags yesterday, the rest of the world awaited word on who would assume the Kremlin helm in this time of heightened U.S.-Soviet tensions...
...Classics spend about 90 minutes playing together on Sunday nights to ready themselves for their games. Although in past years the club has had a full-time coach, this year senior David Wanger and junior Mohan Nadkarni are at the helm. "It's working out a lot better than we thought," Wanger says of their efforts. "We just try to give everyone the same amount of playing time, and to maintain an informal atmosphere while doing the best...