Word: steering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind. President Kennedy is just about resigned to the fact that in Election Year 1962 he will not be able to steer through Congress such favorite New Frontier measures as aid to education and medical care for the aged. But the President is determined to push through a policy every bit as controversial: a liberalized U.S. world-trade program. Last week the big push began...
...early marriage is perhaps largely the effect of unexpectation. Schoolgirls soon accept the idea that to be married is to be satisfied with life. Schools steer girls away from science and math because "you won't need it." Girls more than ever go to college "not to pursue learning but to learn pursuing." They slip, in the phrase of Anthropologist Margaret Mead, into "a kind of fur-lined domesticity...
...hand to pay its international bills, it takes its own money to the Fund and exchanges it for the foreign currency it needs. But it must redeem its money within three to five years, and in the meantime is obliged to accept advice from I.M.F. experts on how to steer its economy out of trouble...
...days, 15-year-old Gregorio Rodriguez helped his family steer a tiny sailboat to Florida. How many other craft have been lost at sea no one knows...
...guess of the potential market for Mach 2s is only 450 planes by 1975; one longtime airline operator puts it as low as 50 ("a national prestige item"). There is every indication that the airframe manufacturers do not need two burnings by jet to learn their economic lesson, will steer clear of the Mach 2 until they can count on heavy Government loans or subsidies...