Word: steering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision- making process. It was a way of maintaining one's position in power. Under Regan, that is the best way to work your way out of a job." Remarks another aide: "Don watches the way the President is going and moves; Jim Baker might have tried to steer him somewhat...
What is different about Gorbachev is his ability to steer away from political cant when talking with Westerners. He is also able to mask his feelings when the occasion calls for it. When French President Francois Mitterrand mentioned Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov during a state banquet in the Kremlin last June, Konstantin Chernenko and Andrei Gromyko looked annoyed, but Gorbachev betrayed no emotion. "He has great control," said a French diplomat. "He was the only one who did not show anything...
...contrast, Boston's other usual starting forward, Cedric Maxwell, is a connoisseur of leisure. At the moment he is caring for a bad knee. During the off-season Maxwell finds it restful to steer his long car to a construction site and watch other men sweat. While he has an undeniable flair for grand occasions on the court, and was the play-off MVP of 1981, now and then in the ordinary going he throttles down for an evening as if idling at a building project. This mildly annoys most of the other players, but it galls Bird, whose farm...
Carone started playing hockey at age six, with his father's blessing. "He played football and he hurt his knees real bad," Carone says. "He tried to steer me away from that...
Kilson raises the question of leadership in the Black community. As university students, we make no cliams to this "global" leadership. We only hope to steer our organizations so that our experience at Harvard and the experiences of other students may be enriched. Kilson's in situation that we do not have a commitment to the Black community and the Black poor is unfounded Among the activities that Professor Kilson fails to the activities that Professor Kilson Fails to mention are those of social service. The Academy Homes Project, intergenerational Outreach, Colprep, and the Seymour Society are just...