Word: steering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members added that Deak-Perera had influenced the District Attorney's decision to drop the charges in order to steer attention away from the issue. But both the company spokesman, who asked not to be identified, and the District Attorney's John W. Gibbons, said the company had no hand in making the choice not to prosecute...
...brief, Tribe argued that "the only way to be safe is either to steer clear of the whole topic or whenever the subject comes up, to proclaim complete aversion to homosexuals...
Mahony, a two-year varsity veteran, will steer the heavyweight fours in tomorrow's Head of the Charles Regatta...
...intramural dispute came to a head last week at a meeting of the National Security Planning Group, an informal panel of top advisers that deliberates with the President on major foreign policy and national security questions. After hearing the arguments from both sides, Reagan chose to steer a center course, but one that will leave him with little leeway to make new proposals for arms control. He decided against offering any specifics to the Soviets at this time, which State Department moderates had been advocating as a way of drawing the Kremlin back to the bargaining table. This...
...profits vanish and companies struggle, the venture-capital firms that helped fuel Silicon Valley's early growth have become stingier. Investment bankers who steer young companies toward the stock market are also cutting back. San Francisco's Hambrecht & Quist recently announced layoffs for 5% of its work force. After arranging initial public offerings for 66 companies, worth $2.2 billion in 1983, Hambrecht & Quist has managed only eight sales worth $96 million so far this year...