Word: steere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congress, a loosely knit "reform caucus" of 50 members, ranging from conservative Republicans to liberal Democrats, has tried to steer a course between the hawks, who would give the generals whatever they request, and the doves, who are dedicated to beating all new weapons into food stamps. "Our emphasis is not on where we can cut, but where we can replace with something more cost effective," says Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado, one of the group's founders. Among the leading members are Democratic Senators Carl Levin of Michigan...
Rosovsky acknowledged criticism that the College was either too liberal or too restrictive, saying that Harvard was trying to steer a "centrist" course through the Core's emphasis on teaching the basic modes of thinking...
...survive him. He became chairman of Woolworth in 1978, and is generally credited with having brought fresh ideas to the 103-year-old company and having recruited and promoted imaginative managers. Among the standouts were Anderson and Allbright, both protégés of Gibbons, who helped him steer the variety store chain into new types of retailing. Their approach was often more aggressive than that of veterans of traditional five-and-dime Woolworth's business...
...officials speculate that the Soviets might be able to destroy the reactor with a remaining explosive charge, or even a burst from one of their killer satellites, a risky procedure that would leave a sinking radioactive cloud in orbit. Or they might have enough maneuvering fuel left to steer the lethal package into the sea. At week's end the fate of Cosmos 1402, as well as of the people in its path, was still very much...
Peter Weir, the first Australian director to make an international name for himself, has chosen to steer a course that is at once more cautious and more daring. He has taken MGM/UA's largesse to mount a more elaborate version of the theme that solders his five earlier films: the collision between British culture and anarchic nature, a conflict that virtually defines the Australian experience. The scene is Indonesia in 1965, as the Sukarno government stumbles toward a coup that will eventually end the strongman's reign. In the streets, Communist marchers sing revolutionary songs with Whiffenpoof harmonies...