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Word: steering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life in the fast lane involves so much getting into and out of cars that motorists often have trouble remembering exactly where their vehicles are parked. Now customers who pull into the nine-level parking complex at the Century City North office tower have a new memory device to steer them to their cars: show tunes from famous motion pictures. Different parking levels have their own movie posters and such piped-in music as We're Off to See the Wizard and the theme from Star Wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: I Left My Car in San Francisco | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...Inspired by a visit to Cardinal Richelieu's tomb, Bok sees an opportunity to help steer Iran along a more moderate path, to cut off terrorism at the source and, above all, to further the goal of worldwide liberal arts education. Using back-channel communications that circumvent the office of acting President Henry Rosovsky, Bok dispatches Eliot House Master Alan Heimert '49 on a secret fact-finding mission during intersession to contact Bani-Sadr's associates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taurus and Tea Leaves | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...each semester there is a desperate scramble for graduate students to lead sections in over-subscribed Core courses with courses advertising for TFs on department bulletin boards. Yet these last ditch section leaders provide the only personal instruction students get in large lecture courses. They are actually expected to steer the fine line between teaching a subject and teaching how to approach a subject...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: The Core Problem | 12/13/1986 | See Source »

...goes, we have to beat Princeton," Harvard Co-Captain Kevin Jernigan, Kenton's younger brother, said. "On paper it looks good, because Princeton lost their top six to graduation. We didn't lose as many as they did, but we try to steer away from taking teams for granted. We have a good team and we have some good transfers, it should be a good year...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Learning to Live Without Kenton | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

Parker noted that "coxswains are very important in this race--it's a challenge just to steer the course well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Maps Necessary | 10/18/1986 | See Source »

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