Word: steering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan is scheduled to make early this week. Whatever the President might have said about the Kremlin in the past, he has decided to call a truce in the war of words that has sent superpower relations plummeting to the lowest point in two decades. Instead, Reagan intends to steer a course, in his words, of "credible deterrence and peaceful competition." As he planned to say in his speech: "Neither we nor the Soviet Union can wish away the differences between our two societies and philosophies. But we should always remember that we do have common interests and that...
...misperception of what the world is really like, what works and what does not work for left-wing liberals have been the master illusionists for years, and their image of the world is as mistaken as any right-wing ideologue's. Reagan has a real opportunity to steer between the wishful thinking of the doves and the vengeful daydreams of the hawks, to introduce more realism into American foreign policy. In fact, he has shown signs of doing precisely that in recent months. The crude attempt by bureaucrats in and out of uniform to censor reality, to manage...
...nonunion airlines an important cost advantage over the old ones, and Lorenzo believed that he had no choice but to take drastic steps to reduce Continental's costs. Says he: "Some very, very brutal things have happened to this industry. I have the job of trying to steer through some stormy waters." But if Continental is successful in breaking its union contracts through bankruptcy, several other airlines may go down that same runway. -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Washington and Lianne Hart/ Houston with other bureaus
...didn't the Soviets try to steer the plane out of Soviet airspace or force it to land? When it was shot down, the Korean airliner was only 11 or 12 miles-a mere 90 seconds or so-from international airspace, and the Soviet planes were low on fuel. The Soviets' main consideration at that point may have been to avoid letting it escape. A mixture of paranoia and bureaucratic rigidity makes the Soviets extremely sensitive about their territory. They have long feared encirclement by hostile forces. Any invasion of airspace, even inadvertent, is regarded by them...
...school in the city, where the enrollment is 90% black, seeking to recruit students of promise. Says Richard Starling, president of the alumni association: "We're like a funnel. We want to move minority students from the high schools into the community college, and then we'll steer them to a four-year institution...