Word: steering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feldstein, the former head of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, also said that using Keynes' theories to steer national economic policy was the reason for most of today's economic woes...
...President must have a vision of an ideal republic," he said. "He must have a course to steer, a port to seek...
...month ago called Ronald Reagan "a new Hitler." Instead, the seasoned comandante played the polished politician, while he embarked on a campaign to win American hearts and minds. During meetings with political, church and press groups, he answered questions with some candor, trying, though not always successfully, to steer clear of revolutionary jargon. Appearing before the United Nations Security Council, he appealed for U.N. endorsement of a recent World Court decision that called for Washington to stop supporting the contra rebels. "We do not want confrontation," he declared. "Nicaragua is willing to engage immediately in negotiations with...
Kelly offers measured praise to all the last four Popes: John XXIII ("warm-hearted and unaffectedly simple"), Paul VI ("He was able to steer the church through a period of revolutionary change"), John Paul I ("a man of practical common sense") and John Paul II ("Few Popes have had such wide- ranging intellectual equipment as John Paul, and none has had such a far- reaching impact"). Such judgments are quite unexceptionable, but a secular- minded reader will find more of interest in some of the bad old days...
...problems with the wind and didn't steer as well as I should have," said the Crimson coxswain, Chauncey Wood. "That affected the set, the run and the effeciency of the boat...