Word: steering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these things, it's the government. The Lab pictures itself as the neutral link between the partisan decision to build nuclear weapons and the partisan decision to use them. And though it depends on whom they're talking to, the Lab would like to deny that their guidance systems steer missiles at all. Draper's security chief did just that, in fact, last August at the trial in Middlesex County Court of five anti-war protestors who sat in on the property of the Lab. Two of these protestors served two weeks in prison as a consequence of a liturgy...
...would go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, had best steer clear of M.S. Sunward II. Of the 750-odd passengers who pack aboard the spruce white ship in Miami each week for a voyage to the Bahamas, few will later recall ever having seen seas, let alone a lonely sea. On Sunward II and most other cruise ships operating out of U.S. ports, sea and sky are props for a floating fantasy sitcom vacation that promises to be more naughty than nautical. Aboard Sunward, which steams only 380 nautical miles in the course...
Speaking before a standing-room crowd of more than 300 at the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel hospital, Nader said physicians tend to steer away from preventive medicine because of the "low prestige" accorded doctors in that specialty...
...they could not solve the problems of poverty and injustice in the country simply by throwing money at them. As their outlays to social programs grew, poor policy coordination and bureaucratic entanglements got in the way of meaningful progress and fostered the expectations of a society that could not steer itself clear of an inflationary mess...
...nearly as at home on the range as his Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. For over 15 years, Nebraska-born "Mac" Baldrige, 58, has been riding in as many as ten rodeos a year, often finishing in the money ($6,000 last year) in his specialty, steer roping. Last week in Phoenix, Baldrige competed for the first time since joining the Administration. He lost, perhaps because rounding up his department "has taken precedence over rodeo practice." But he did snare an even bigger prize: the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's Man of the Year award. Shucks, the Cabinet cowpoke...