Word: steering
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...drilling created small cavities all along the high side of the foundation, allowing engineers to "steer" the settling of the tower...
...solution, it's the problem. Still, President Bush is in a bind, because he can no longer say the science is inconclusive. He can say that drastic actions to curb global warming could hurt the economy. It's certainly going to take a deft hand to steer the economy through the issue of climate change...
...rock-bottom standard, since the image of the Bronco II continued to worsen. In June 1989 a Consumer Reports article titled "How Safe Is the Bronco II?" rated its handling as poor in a test that simulated rapid lane changes. The Consumers Union publication advised "prudent buyers" to steer clear of it. According to an original analysis prepared for TIME by University of Michigan statistician Hans Joksch, an expert in automotive statistics, the Explorer has had approximately the same rate of fatal rollovers as the Bronco...
...business is figuring out who's going to be the boss, which explains why he quit the almost-top job at TerraLycos. "I was hoping I wouldn't have to," concedes Davis. "But we had more than one hand on the tiller, and that's an impossible way to steer a company." The other hand belongs to Joaquim Agut, TerraLycos' CEO, who has a bigger claim to the job, since his company bought Davis...
...install her. It's not even clear that she wants the top job right now, when increasingly volatile ethnic and religious tensions in Aceh, Irian Jaya, Ambon, the Moluccas and elsewhere are threatening to break apart the archipelago nation. Meanwhile, the economy languishes in the doldrums as foreign investors steer clear of Jakarta's political instability...