Word: steering
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...unwilling to examine its position as to defend it. It shouldn’t require 45 people risking arrest, academic failure and their health to make the University respond to substantive questions in a thoughtful and meaningful manner. As it was, the administration missed an ideal opportunity to steer Harvard to the moral high ground on an important issue, to articulate a commitment to its employees, to make a statement to the rest of the world about the values of this University. Instead, the world received a far different message, couched in a tone of ambivalence that I and others...
Code-named Ginger, the Segway Human Transporter is the world’s first self-balancing scooter and allows a person to travel about 12 miles per hour. The scooter can run up to 15 miles on a single electric charge; to steer a Segway, a rider simply needs to shift their body weight and the machine will sense the change and respond almost instantaneously...
...With the ongoing military operation in neighboring Afghanistan, Iran also sees an opportunity to play a central, stabilizing role in the region. The Sunni Taliban have long been enemies of Shi'ite Iran, and Tehran reckons its influence will increase as it helps steer a (hopefully) more moderate Afghan regime back into the regional fold...
...Diving System by Oceanworks International stabilizes air pressure around the body so that divers working as deep as 2,000 ft. below sea level feel as if they're still on the beach. Powered by twin thrusters mounted on either side of the oxygen tank, the suit lets you steer in any direction, using built-in foot pedals. But the suits are so heavy that divers have to be lowered in a metal cage before they can step out and look around. The U.S. Navy, which plans to use the suit for submarine rescue and salvage missions, bought the first...
...Office of Homeland Security to hold it together. Because of the daunting task before it—of assessing the current state of domestic security and proposing long-term reforms—Ridge should begin his work immediately. But while Ridge works toward long-term solutions, he should steer his agency away from immediate policy decisions, which are better left to experienced groups like FEMA. With threat of another terrorist catastrophe growing every minute, we cannot depend on a hastily constructed agency led by a security outsider to avert disaster...