Word: steering
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Although the dissidents believe that Neves is the more likely of the two candidates to restore confidence in Brazil's government and hasten the return to democracy, neither is expected to steer Brazil far from the policies of Figueiredo. In trying to manage the country's estimated $100 billion foreign debt, Neves emphasizes social and economic justice first, whereas Maluf proposes a free-market solution to the problem. Says Maluf: "Brazil has never had a businessman as President. We need to change the mentality of the country...
Telling's most distinctive innovation during his remodeling of Sears was to steer the company into the financial-services business. Within a single week in 1981, Sears moved to buy Dean Witter for $610 million and Coldwell Banker, a California real estate firm, for $202 million...
...Perkins, 71, liberal Democratic Congressman from Kentucky since 1949, chairman of the powerful House Education and Labor Committee since 1967 and one of the wiliest, most determined minds ever to hide behind a country-bumpkin exterior; of an apparent heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. In the 1960s Perkins helped steer Lyndon Johnson's antipoverty legislation through Congress; he had also pushed relentlessly for federal aid for vocational training in 1963 and for primary and secondary education in 1965. Perkins later became probably the most outspoken House critic of Reagan Administration budget cuts...
Worst of all, perhaps, the latest polls show Mondale badly losing ground with the voters while attempting to steer between these minefields. Gallup now finds the former Vice President running 19 points behind Reagan, a gap more than twice as wide as the one that existed a month ago, when Mondale became the all but official Democratic nominee. A New York Times/CBS News poll puts the current Reagan lead at 15 points. Surveys this early in the campaign are no reliable guide to the outcome in November, but senior Democratic leaders are concerned. The polls, says one, "mean that since...
...Eretz Yisrael, whose biblical boundaries include the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or defending the controversial 1982 war in Lebanon, Begin hewed to a pugnaciously righteous course that evoked passionate reaction from supporter and foe alike, at home and abroad. Without disavowing Begin's policies, Shamir has tried to steer a course that appears more moderate, at least in tone. Peres, who, like Shamir, possesses little of Begin's fiery charisma, opposes much of what Begin stands...