Word: steering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats tapped San Francisco as the setting for their 1984 national convention. "We're taking the election right into Ronald Reagan's backyard," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt, a Los Angeles lawyer who appointed the 27 members of the committee and who pushed hard to steer the convention into his home state. Said jubilant San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein: "Whoopee...
...Student Assembly, the ill-fated previous structure of student government, constantly suffered because representatives were unaccountable to undergraduates. The Undergraduate Council has tended to steer clear of that tradition, although the recent behavior of the academics committee in charge of the teaching awards has worked to reverse that trend...
...Guatemala, Venezuela and Costa Rica, to join. But, to the dismay of some of his colleagues, he has imprinted the Socialist International with his own ideological stamp. The Socialist International routinely condemns human rights abuses in South Africa or South Korea, but delegations heading for East European capitals often steer away from controversial subjects. When Poland's General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law in December 1981, Brandt issued a bland statement of regret noting that "unwanted advice and strongly worded declarations will not help the people of Poland." Brandt has also drawn fire for his calls for "revolutionary change...
...strongest section of the book, Alexander discusses how Harris's trial might have been handled differently to steer towards an acquittal or manslaughter charge, instead of a conviction for first degree murder. Here the author's sympathy for Harris has goaded her to a fascinating exposure of the twists of the American legal system. Her documentation of the mishandling of the case accumulates and convinces. One point is particularly striking. Harris's defense did not deem psychiatrists' testimony necessary but the psychiatrists who treated Harris before the trial believe that her refusal to plead insanity was in itself an element...
...PUNKS IN HARVARD SQUARE have become fixtures as familiar as the leafletters and construction workers. Stationed at the T stop next to At of Town News, these black leather-clad youths with shaved heads and chains neatly part the otherwise amorphous crowd Steer clear, take a peek, then maybe chance another look, but don't gawk-everyone reacts the same way. Yet it doesn't take more than a few peeks to realize there's more to this crowd than roughness. The striking punks aren't trying to threaten--rather, their severe looks and loud music are a desperate effort...