Word: steering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cataloguers' computers can make alphabet soup of a simple order. Most expensive things from jewelry and furs to high-style fabrics and all fitted clothing demand personal, tactile, in-store selection. There are still some salesclerks around who can advise customers, lead them to real bargains or steer them away from lemons. Big-ticket appliances like refrigerators and air conditioners can often be bought less expensively at a local store than through a catalogue...
...ranchers are dependent on federal land because private land is overgrazed. The reason for the dependency is the patchwork nature of real estate ownership in the West. Ranchers need the public areas to tie the scattered tracts of private land together. There is no profit in overgrazing. If a steer has to walk 100 yds. to get a mouthful, he isn't going to get fat. My family has been on the same ranch for 93 years. If we had abused the land, we would have had to move long...
...cartridge to fire a paint-filled gelatin ball about the size of a child's marble-.68 cal., someone estimated. The Nelson Paint Co. of Iron Mountain, Mich., developed the pistol to give stockmen and foresters a tool for marking cattle or trees from a distance. Shoot a steer on the flank with a Nel-Spot, and you color-coat him with a splotch of red or blue or yellow the size of a fried egg. easily recognizable at shipping time...
...associate, "and then doesn't leave them till they're settled." But his greatest strength, says another, is that "he knows when to use clout and when to listen." For instance, when talking to Menachem Begin, who tends to obscure issues with lengthy digressions, Habib will tenaciously steer the conversation back to the central topic. "He doesn't take opening positions too seriously but as a point of departure from which to make some progress," says William Quandt, former chief Middle East expert of the National Security Council. "He realizes that diplomacy...
...from Dynasty, Genie Francis, 20, late of General Hospital, and Donna Mills from Knots Landing. Francis plays a gung-ho executive who goes to work for a large, shaky corporation. She saves the situation by teaming up with the race-car-driving, playboy heir to the company to steer the organization into the fragrance business and a perfume that is Bare Essence. The show is obviously musk viewing for the heads of any financially troubled corporations...