Word: steered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ferguson, 23, is a surprisingly mild individual for a man who makes his living as a champion steer wrestler and calf roper. Unlike the ornery, untamed cowboys of rodeo lore, he does not brawl his way from one prairie town to the next. His rodeo skills were honed not on a hardscrabble ranch but on a college campus. Even so, almost every time Ferguson grabs a rampant 800-lb. steer by the horns to "bulldog" it to the turf, or smoothly lassoes a speeding calf, he places in the money. So far this year he has already earned more than...
...become excessively cantankerous, his above-politics politics proved to be the winningest of all. His imitators have been striving for the same tone ever since. In his first State of the Union speech, Eisenhower (or his speechwriter) did a semantic balancing act that would have impressed Aristotle, promising to steer a middle course in foreign affairs "between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly." The poet Robert Frost, growing impatient with Eisenhower's repeated middle-of-the-road metaphor, complained that "the middle of the road is where the white line...
Because of the publicity, ginseng rejuvenating pills have now disappeared from stores in the Bay Area's Chinese communities. If they reappear, prospective consumers should steer clear of them. The ingredients listed on their labels may or may not help cure illness; the unlisted items can kill...
What remains to be seen is whether Cabot will steer Harvard clear of future investments in companies such as Middle South. Cabot is inheriting a portfolio which is well-stocked with oil companies and public utilities, two of the most controversial spheres in this day of energy shortages. It is highly unlikely that there will be any immediate move to get Harvard out of such companies, no matter how regressive their policies are. There may be a slight alteration of this make-up over time, but if Harvard ever does decide to divest itself of its Gulf Oils, Middle South...
Strauch makes his opinions very well known to the committee but he has thus far been able to avoid any attempt to steer the committee in only one direction. Aside from Strauch, most committee members point to Dean Whitlock as the most influential among their number. Whitlock, who has 26 years of administrative experience at Harvard, knows so much about how things operate in the undergraduate sphere, that members often defer to his experience...