Word: steers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somewhat battered," observed Speaker John McCormack last week, after helping to steer the Administration's school-aid bill through the House. "But we weathered the storm...
Marcos' job is made no easier by a wave of nationalism that is sweeping the islands. Unfortunately, much of the feeling is anti-American and thus anti-Marcos, since he is openly on the U.S. side. Many Filipinos complain that he should steer a more neutral course. His rivals in Congress, for example, are badgering him for sending two battalions of engineers to Viet Nam, threaten to force him to recall them. To show his independence, Marcos has publicly demanded the return of the U.S. Navy's Sangley Point Air Station to Philippine control. Though Washington would like...
...tall ship and a star to steer...
...public policy and private initiative, to maintain a link with the Government without be coming bogged down in bureaucracy or timidity. For in retrospect, perhaps the CIA's most important contribution was not money but unconventional and imaginative ideas, notwithstanding failures. If the new "mechanism" can steer between a too specific, outdated cold war orientation, on the one hand, and an aimless benevolence on the other, it has a truly exciting chance not merely to provide shelter for the orphans but to modify the entire pattern of America's self-projection in the world...
...merely a hair-raising path through the city streets of Monte Carlo, barely wide enough to allow one car to pass another, and replete with such hazards as a curving tunnel in the middle of a 120-m.p.h. straightaway and two hairpins. It is hard enough to steer a Corvair around a 180° turn, let alone a 400-h.p. Formula I racing car. In the past 15 years, the winner's speed has climbed from 58.2 m.p.h. to 75.8 m.p.h...