Word: steered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reported $17 million. "There should be only four national newspapers in Britain today," he says. "It doesn't make sense to have more." Time seems certain to prove him right, and clearly His Lordship hopes the Times will be among the survivors. But unless he can steer it out of the sea of red ink soon, the flagship of Fleet Street just may not make...
...task of the front runner is to avoid boring the electorate with a drumfire of statements that he may later regret -while remaining in view. Muskie must also steer clear of the Romney trap: disputes with the press over what he did or did not say. Otherwise reporters will be dusting off the old ROMNEY key on their typewriters-the one, the Washington gag has it, that prints at one stroke: "Governor Romney later explained that what he really meant was . . ." That could be the end of presidential hopes, and Muskie knows...
...good measure, Ky jeered that the country has become "a rotten boat with a deceptively good coat of paint. The men who steer the boat," he added, "are unfaithful, disloyal, ungrateful people...
...somehow the city fathers have managed to steer the problem away from the specifies of the Walton case (and three other complaints of police beatings) onto a new course which talks of a Citizens' Review Board designed, in the City Manager's words, "to handle citizen complaints and recommendations for improved service...
...first lesson from Nader and Co. is how to avoid buying a trouble-plagued car. Nader suggests that the cautious purchaser should steer away from delicate options like automatic speed controls, eyelid headlamp covers, power windows and power antenna-all of which have a high frequency-of-repair record. But heavy-duty suspension, says the book, is "a must, even for urban driving." The buyer should hire an outside mechanic to check over the car before accepting delivery from a dealer...