Word: steering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signals that it has reached an altitude of 8,000 meters, or about 26,000 ft. Course 30 refers to a magnetic directional heading, used by air controllers throughout the world to steer planes from the ground. Magnetic north is 0°, magnetic east is 90°, magnetic south 180° and so on. Thus, on course magnetic 30, the south MiG-23 is flying in a northeast direction. Moments later, however, at ground instruction, the pilot swings around, heads east-southeast, and eventually falls in line behind the Su-15, where he will stay for the duration...
Watson was succeeded by his son Thomas Watson Jr., who served as chief executive officer from 1956 to 1971. A powerful executive in his own right, the younger Watson had helped persuade his father to steer IBM into the computer age. After retirement, Thomas Watson Jr. was U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union under President Carter...
...week after his designation, Mengistu appeared under a hammer-and-sickle emblem to condemn "Western opposition to socialism" as "the main threat to world peace." It was enough to convince even those who are skeptical of the durability of the Soviet link of exactly where Mengistu intends to steer Ethiopia and, if he can manage it, the rest of the continent...
...ambience, the path leads straight to the Coffee Connection (fondly referred to as the cafine connection by devotees) where you can find any been you fancy brewed ways even Mrs. Folger hasn't heard about. Located in the first floor of the Garage, you can drink your fill, but steer clear of the obscenely priced, though delicious, desserts...
...seem to mind reliving events that couldn't have been much fun in undergraduate days. A crowded, brightly-lit dance in Memorial Hall Sunday night featured a third-rate swing band and bore a resemblance to an awkward freshman mixer. But for these post-freshmen, having to line up, steer-like, in black tie and gowns to board yellow school buses to take them to the Park Plaza was probably made less noxious by the sign in one of the bus windows: "Very Important People...