Word: steering
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There aren't many clubs harder to join than the G-8. You have to be at the top of the global heap: one of the very richest industrialized countries, potent enough to help steer the world's economy. And you're supposed to be a functioning democracy too. So when Vladimir Putin opens this year's G-8 summit next weekend at the sumptuous Palace of Congresses overlooking the sea 15 km from St. Petersburg, the famously stone-faced Russian President can be forgiven a brief flicker of a smile. The former kgb officer in East Germany will...
...that's changing. At research centers in the U.S., Canada, Europe and elsewhere, investigators are launching a wealth of new studies into the sibling dynamic, looking at ways brothers and sisters steer one another into--or away from--risky behavior; how they form a protective buffer against family upheaval; how they educate one another about the opposite sex; how all siblings compete for family recognition and come to terms--or blows--over such impossibly charged issues as parental favoritism...
Concern has arisen recently among some undergraduates because students have not been included in the six-member committee that could potentially steer Harvard’s eventual general education plan in a new direction...
...cast himself as the champion of Mexico's have-nots, promising to "keep our young people from having to abandon their towns and families for the other side of the border." A former social worker, he lives in an austere Mexico City apartment. He says he will steer resources to small businesses and end tax and regulatory breaks enjoyed by large corporations. He also wants to review the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has hurt Mexican farmers by deluging the market with cheap food imports. "For once," López told TIME, "we're going to confront the great...
...million single-family homes have Zillow estimates, and the site employs statisticians to refine its formula for calculating home prices. The valuation the site suggests won't necessarily determine your offering price, but it should give you a helpful ballpark figure so neither brokers nor buyers can steer you wildly astray...