Word: steering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same I played the game; when it was all over, I too would participate in the dream, help run it, steer its course. How I was to do this was up to me--society was more or less stuck with me. After all, I went to Harvard...
...goal of sensible social policy should be to channel this natural human desire in safer directions, not to snuff it out, which is neither possible nor desirable. Thinking about the drug problem in this way focuses special attention on the role of marijuana. Current policy steers people like you and me, fellow bourgeois TIME readers, away from marijuana and toward alcohol. Is that a good idea? I'm not sure. Legalizing marijuana might steer the users of crack, heroin, PCP, etc., toward grass instead. Whether that's a good idea seems much clearer...
...loss is discovered. In California 1,773 head of cattle were reported missing in 1987, but state officials estimate the actual loss to have been about 6,200 animals, worth about $2.5 million. Since the price of cattle has risen sharply, from $429 for a 650-lb. yearling feeder steer at the beginning of 1987 to a near record $543 today, ranchers and law-enforcement officials are bracing for more and more thefts on the range...
...Benton Demaree, 38 -- allegedly used trailers to ship 45 head of cattle from an area southwest of Fresno to livestock auctions nearly 100 miles miles away in San Luis Obispo and Kern counties. Only when a state cattle-brand inspector spotted a telltale marker hidden within a steer's ear were the suspected thieves nabbed...
...divorcing his wife of 34 years and the mother of his two children. Professionally, he faces a continuing struggle to close the chasm between Stanford's powerful scientific-technical community and its humanities disciplines. For all his accomplishments, Kennedy is modest about his role at the university: "I can steer it a bit, but I couldn't redirect it if I wanted to." Yet all signs are that the Kennedy touch will keep the tight ship that is Stanford moving handsomely forward...