Word: steere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pick up infrared radiation emanating from the enemy satellite and focus it on a heat-sensitive targeting device. The device is housed in a small refrigerator; just as light is easier to see from a darkened room, heat is easier to sense in the cold. The jets steer the MHV on a collision course with the target. No explosives are necessary: a satellite orbiting at 17,000 m.p.h. would be shattered by a head-on crash with a 35-lb. projectile hurtling 10,800 m.p.h. in the opposite direction...
That part is the bureaucratic, well-dressed, English-accented, sometimes amiable, and sometimes condescending Harvard administration. It's no minor affair. Scores of deans, governors, administrators and vice-presidents steer this very wealthy ship into calm but profitable waters. Their journeys take them toward new academic and technological frontiers and breakthroughs, toward new standards of "Harvard etiquette," and onto the drydock for repairs...
...course, there is concern over the irregular pace of the American economy. You need only to look at the dollar exchange rate. We must continue to steer the course we are now on: consolidation of public finances and bringing interest rates under control to achieve a lower inflation rate and freedom for the economy to move away from governmental restrictions. We are cutting taxes by 20 billion marks ($6.4 billion) as part of the recovery process...
...sharpest criticisms came from the panel's dissenting judge, J. Skelly Wright, who called his colleagues' interpretation of actual malice "a startling revision." If the jury verdict is upheld, Wright predicted, "the effect on freedom of expression will be incalculable. The message to the media will be unmistakable--steer clear of unpleasant news stories." The Post is expected to ask the full ten-member appeals court to hear the case...
...should never forget that Bok was the hero who brought coffee and doughnuts to his law students in 1969, while [then-president] Pusey was calling in the state troopers to break the heads of his students. The instinct active in the Bok of 1969 will steer him away from sustaining apartheid, and back to himself. Bok was not an opportunist in 1969. His response was not just astute, it was fresh and genuine and it made him the only possible choice for president. Let Bok end his term as president as honorably as he began its he still has that...