Word: helming
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Deng is rightfully credited with wrenching the country from the xenophobia and brutality of Mao's flawed experiment with collectivism. But by amassing the power required for such a prodigious turn of the helm, he foreclosed debate on crucial issues like political reform and institutional change. Left unresolved in his lifetime, those questions will now be thrown open in a way that threatens to loosen China's moorings. The country's stability, at least in the short term, may depend upon finding a new strongman, one who can offer a gravitational center while the nation struggles with the questions Deng...
Whichever sex is at the helm, the margin of victory may depend more on technology than seamanship. If the Australians won in 1983 -- the first and only time a challenger has wrested away the Cup -- it was mostly because of their newfangled keels flanked by little wings to diminish underwater drag. If Koch, a multimillionaire with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from M.I.T., trounced four-time winner Conner and the Italian finalist, Gardini, in the last Cup, it was because he built four boats only to settle on the one with the sleekest hull, stiffest mast and lightest sails made...
...Boston Globe's account is accurate ("Students' World Largely Unshaken by Shift at the Helm," Dec. 1), Rudenstine is badly needed back at the helm...
Political pundits have patronizingly ridiculed him. Politicians, including fellow Republicans, have publicly criticized him. The New York Times even called for Republicans to reject Helm's bid to chair the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...even after its shocking defeat two weeks ago, the Democratic Party, with President Clinton at its helm, has been remarkable for its similarity to the Republicans. In his morning-after news conference, the President seemed apologetic for having, in some vague way, failed the American people...