Word: shepherding
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...Carter advisers are counting on Vice President Walter Mondale to shepherd unhappy Kennedy supporters back into the Democratic fold. One recruit about to sign up: Robert Kennedy Jr., now a law student at the University of Virginia Law School. Mondale is also busily holding "unity meetings" to strengthen the old Democratic coalition that many experts feel will grudgingly regroup as Nov. 4 and the prospect of a Ronald Reagan presidency loom ever closer...
...strip of no man's land behind it. The nine road, eight rail and two canal crossings are tightly guarded and brightly floodlit at night. Traffic is minutely inspected to foil escapes. Heat-sensitive devices are used to detect persons hidden in vehicles and barges, and trained German shepherd dogs roam underneath all trains to sniff out would-be escapees clinging to undercarriages...
...police were intrigued by the thief's modus operandi. Said Sergeant Arthur Nielsen: "This is only the second armed animal robbery case I've seen in 21 years. We once caught a guy who was using a big German shepherd to scare money out of his victims." The snake, which police found sleeping under a nearby porch, was turned over to the Lincoln Park Zoo. The snake was thus freed, after a fashion; only its master must still face the scales of justice...
...early 1970s, however, there were signs of a turnaround. The company moved its headquarters from Philadelphia to New York City and began building up an overseas affiliate network. Then, in 1976, Louis Hagopian, 54, the aggressive son of an Armenian shepherd, who had been director of advertising at Chrysler's Plymouth division before joining Ayer in 1960, took over as chairman. In the next three years he added 48 new accounts and increased billings from $190 million to last year's record $428 million...
WHEN PRESIDENT Charles W. Eliot explored ways the University could improve secondary education in the 1890s, his goals were few and simple. To guarantee Harvard a large, well-qualified pool of applicants, he led a small recruiting campaign, helping high school instructors shepherd young men past the imposing gates of the Yard. But as Eliot's cause expanded, eventually inspiring the establishment of the Graduate School of Education in 1920, skeptics repeatedly challenged the movement, questioning the suitability of secondary education as a university concern...