Word: steering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under these conditions, Jaruzelski was understandably cautious when he spoke for nearly three hours before the Central Committee. Instead of launching any controversial initiatives, he sought to steer a resolutely middle course. Thus while the general implicitly rebuked the hard-liners by denouncing the spread of "factional activity" and "libels," he also appeared eager to placate them on a number of points. Speaking in his usual monotone, he promised not to ease the emergency restrictions too soon, blaming "tensions, acts of extravagance and poster campaigns" for their continuance. He declared that the power to name the country's economic...
This is more or less what happened. Once Watergate erupted, many old-line opponents of Nixon understood very well what was happening to their country's prestige and were horror-struck. The best they could do was to ease the task of those few in authority trying to steer the wreck...
Nothing about the crash added up. The pilots were among the Air Force's finest. Their T-38 Talon twin-jet trainers are so easy to steer that flyers call them "baby buggies," and the line-abreast loop, spectacular as it looks, is a fairly routine maneuver. One speculation: the leader may have misjudged his altitude or speed, and the other three duplicated his error. Thunderbird Capt. Dale Cook was flying solo that day. Says he: "I really can't speculate on what may have gone wrong. When you are flying in formation you are not just watching...
...distribution, philosophers have looked beyond the transactions and haggling of everyday life for answers to the heavy problems of morality and ethics. Richard A. Posner, a former law professor at the University of Chicago recently appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals, has written The Economics of Justice to steer economic moral reasoning into the straits that govern human behavior...
...forgotten American Communist and his troubled, tempestuous wife Louise Bryant. These Reeds never pretend to be ordinary people; this Reds boasts not a single mechanical toy as a major character. Reed's life said this: Not only can you hop the express train of history, you can help steer it into a new age. With Reds Beatty says: I'm not just a movie star, a minimogul, a hot gossip item; I've got a great film in me and here...