Word: steering
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...Harvard is very strong,” Mottahedeh, himself a Middle East scholar, wrote. “The present community of scholars strongly welcomes the extension of Islamic studies to areas beyond these regions.” Jewett Professor of Arabic Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, a member of the steering committee for the new program, said that the program will help address glaring gaps in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations that he says an “unsympathetic administration” has ignored. “We just lost two fields, Persian Languages and Literatures, and Turkish Languages...
...those among us who spammed a house email list, routinely tuned into the news, rocked a “Rock the Vote” t-shirt, or (democracy forbid!) actually voted to give ourselves a congratulatory pat on the back. We’ve done our patriotic duty to steer the country back towards truth, justice, and the American...
...week's end, the Conversant crew knows it won't be pushing several thousand head of balky, stinky steers up the Chisholm Trail anytime soon. But the trainees have come far enough to achieve a sense of accomplishment, as well as a confidence they hope will stick even when they're buried in paperwork and Ferguson and her colleagues in accounting are screaming for new computers. "I went into the program with some trepidation," allows Kelcie Anderson, 36, a project manager with Tektronix in Beaverton, Ore., who had never been on a horse before her stay at the Home Ranch...
...Whitehouse has been running an ad in which he says, "We need to send a clear signal that, folks, we are really getting out" of Iraq. So upended is the political calculus that it is now Republicans like Senate majority leader Bill Frist who are urging their candidates to steer clear of the war in favor of pocketbook issues...
...fact, as Royal's staff noted in a quickly disseminated clarification, such popular juries are nothing new; Royal first voiced the idea back in 2002, and well before that it emerged from "Anglo-Saxon theories of empowerment." For years, such selective citizens' committees have been used in Berlin to steer municipal policies where citizens thought they ought to go, and in Scandinavia to get a handle on controversial issues like genetically modified foods...