Word: steering
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...Wenonah Canoe, one of the largest canoe and kayak makers in the country, kayak sales outpaced those of canoes four years ago, according to president Rich Enochs. While canoes typically seat two people and are harder to steer, most kayaks are built for one, and after a 30-minute lesson, even novices can go faster than they could in a canoe. New activities like kayak fishing, in which fishers explore narrow creeks and waterways in specialized boats with more legroom, have helped boost sales. And Wenonah's Current Designs line features smaller vessels that are easier for shorter adults...
...race, their cadence and power output dictated by the coxswain who quite literally operates the driver’s seat.“On the water, a coxswain has three jobs,” says lightweight men’s coxswain Kevin He. “You have to steer on the water, be the motivational person on the water, and be the coach on the water. You have a lot of multitasking to do.” “The coxswain becomes the team captain as soon as you’re on the water...
...called "Reform Treaty", which now gets renamed the Lisbon Treaty, is supposed to revamp the workings of the E.U. institutions so that the Union and its 27 member states can better steer through the maze of economic and foreign policy issues they face in the 21st century...
...core of the debate is a fundamental issue: Is building roads one of those things, like trade policy, that only the Federal Government should steer, or is there a better way? Forty-five percent of the money spent on American roads comes to the states from the Federal Government, but Congress hasn't raised the gas tax, its main source of highway funds, since 1993. And that's just fine by people who find the free market efficient and earmark-free...
...rainy and blustery Tercentenary Theatre, Faust turned to the past as she articulated a vision of Harvard’s future. Dressed in a robe modeled on the raiments of a Puritan minister, she invoked John Winthrop as she presented what she called a “compass to steer by,” a web of broadly conceived priorities for the University and higher education.“The essence of a university is that it is uniquely accountable to the past and to the future—not simply or even primarily to the present...