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...Sloops is a fairly big unknown,” Noack said. “Dan Litchfield will probably be steering the boat, but he’s basically unproven as a helmsman in that competition...
...selection of the country's next supreme leader largely irrelevant. After more than two decades of economic reform, China's centralized system has given way to clusters of fiefdoms operating outside Beijing's shrinking sphere of influence. Absolute power, once exemplified by the personality cult of the Great Helmsman, has devolved to regional party bosses who now hold sway over citizens' everyday lives. "Hu is being groomed to run a country that is increasingly ungovernable," says Wu Guoguang, a former Communist Party aide now living in Hong Kong. "There are too many little emperors in China to listen to just...
...tiller from the get-go, Powell choreographed a diplomatic solution in which the U.S. realized its objectives while conceding little of substance. He proved that determined diplomacy could work where tough talk and posturing was bound to fail, and that will cement his claims as the Great Helmsman of Bush administration foreign policy, which had recently been under fire from Washington's hawks...
...comparison with Rubin on divestiture is not the only one O'Neill is up against. Apart from understanding markets, Rubin had perfect pitch when it came to the political ramifications of Treasury decisions - and of course there's the matter of being the executive-branch helmsman of an unprecedented economic boom. So far, O'Neill seems a bit more tone-deaf, especially when it comes to the jittery nerves of the bond markets, and this is in a Republican administration, where the Treasury head is usually the Big Man on Campus...
...They were the second group of civilians to take a one-day sub ride since the Greeneville collision. None were allowed to steer the 18,750-ton boat. That's been banned since the Greeneville incident, when a civilian had been sitting at the inboard helmsman's wheel. The prohibition is largely symbolic. The civilian steering the Greeneville had a sailor and diving officer behind him telling him every move to make on the wheel and had nothing to do with the accident; the mishap was already in the works by the time the civilian pulled the wheel back...