Word: steering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minister know that before they go to college," Klingensmith says, and "frequently, and unfortunately, religious young people are not critically minded. They're not concerned with studying things properly and being introduced to challenging ways of looking at things that could impair their own religion." And so, they steer clear of Cambridge...
Swearer is both modest and cautious about Brown's success so far: "You have to give credit to a large number of people." But his chief financial aide, Senior Vice President Richard Ramsden, believes that management programs have helped steer Brown out of trouble. "We wanted Brown to be known as one of the best-managed institutions of higher education in the U.S." Broad faculty, and even student, support was enlisted for these programs. When Swearer in 1978 embarked upon a $158 million capital fund drive, instead of asking the faculty where it could cut back, he asked where...
...since he started farming. Nine years ago, he paid $4 an acre to water his cotton; today he pays more than $45. "It's like a disease," he says. "You just accept it and go on." Gerald Wiechman farms 6,000 acres and feeds 2,500 head of steer near Scott City in western Kansas. When his farm's first well started pumping, it tapped water at 54 ft. Today he has to go 130 ft. "I've got another 20 years, maybe," he reckons. On the High Plains of eastern Colorado, the water level has dropped...
...department experienced a major decline in freshman applicants last year when only two freshmen applied. Walker said, She partially attributed the falloff to "subtle or not so subtle pressure by freshman advisors to steer people away from the department, particularly by saying it may be harmful to graduate school and employment plans...
...economics and compassionate social welfare policies, and helped give the world a Zionist homeland (thanks to their vigorous advocacy at home and abroad). Though Murphy refuses to entertain the possibility seriously, there is a place for informal judicial involvement in America's policy-making apparatus so long as judges steer clear of entanglement that could prejudice their decisions. For as the lives of Brandeis and Frankfurter show, judges often do wrong what is best for the nation--and their wisdom should not go untapped because of absolutist notions of the need for judicial seclusion