Word: steered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freedom neatly defines away what Principal Charles L. Jones calls "the garbage discipline problems -kids with feet in the aisle or getting up to sharpen pencils." But self-discipline is another matter. To encourage it, the teachers try to steer a middle course. They refuse to insist on the old obedience, which often prevents kids from learning the consequences of their own choices. Even so, the teachers also shun the pure permissiveness that says if a child is allowed to goof off long enough, he will decide for himself that work is more satisfying. The resulting hybrid might be called...
...retain their sense of character, the class has attempted to steer the course of their Reunion onto a somewhat less frivolous route than might be expected. A crash course of seminars and panels has been organized to tell them where students are at and where administrators intend them to go. (Topics range from "Have We Moved Backward or Forward in 25 Years?", a Winthrop House discussion led by Physics professor Gerald Holton, to "The Spiraling Costs of Higher Education and How To Pay For It," by John Dunlop, Dean of the Faculty...
...anniversary ceremony for the division, he cut the huge birthday cake with a sword. "We don't use swords to make wars any more," beamed Thieu, "just to cut cake." The division commander, Major General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, thanked the President and urged him "to continue to steer the national boat." It was advice that Thieu is obviously chafing to accept...
Airport, he shot right past the honor guard and band. Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas had to steer him back to the reviewing stand to hear the Marseillaise and God Save the Queen...
...deal with the Japanese are struck by their practice of making business calls in groups. The Japanese come so well prepared for conferences that some Americans believe that they have rehearsed their speaking parts, like actors in a play. On almost all occasions, the Japanese courteously but firmly steer the conversation to commerce. They are patient and persistent bargainers. Even on a golf course, overseas Japanese businessmen occasionally jot down notes of a conversation between putts...