Word: steered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days of the three-masters, merchant seamen the world over have regarded New York harbor as by far the U.S.'s premier port of call. Now the tide is changing. Chronic labor strife, rampant pilferage and the rising cost of doing business are forcing many shippers to steer around the Port of New York, which is an 833-mile labyrinth of piers stretching from northern New Jersey to western Long Island. Less than 13% of the nation's ocean-borne foreign trade passes through the port, a drop of more than 50% in the past three decades...
JAMES O'HARA. A little-known liberal Congressman from Michigan, O'Hara, 46, chairs the Rules Committee. His task: to steer toward delegate approval far-reaching changes intended not only to make future conventions fairer, but to divest them of both the boredom and the hoopla -long-winded speeches, planned demonstrations, conscripted marchers...
...Rather steer clear of the law. The hard life, simple brutishness, to lift with withered fist the coffin's lid, to sit, to suffocate. And thus no old age, no dangers...
...starring Sidney Poitier, it is at least competently made and has a few, fleeting moments of genuine fun. Poitier plays Buck, a guide whose job is to get wagon trains of poor blacks through the terrors of testy Indians and the sudden, brutal raids of freebooters hired to steer the wagons back to Louisiana, where the blacks are needed on the farms. Much to his chagrin, Buck is abetted by a smarmy and slightly balmy preacher (Harry Belafonte) who has a fine eye for the ladies and a decided interest in storing up worldly goods...
...polls. He will not tell you about his cousin in Salonika who was not allowed to return to the village because he was considered dangerous, even though his only political involvement was voting "No" at the same "referendum". But if you sit with him long enough and if you steer the conversation that way, he will tell you with great bitterness how the Ministry of Agriculture supported the middleman in his nearest town by repaying him for World War II losses and yet never gave anybody in the village a single drachma and how the middleman is still paying...