Word: steers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adventurous, Lucia, which is described as a Cuban epic of love and revolution, makes its debut in the Science Center B on Saturday night. A wise man told me to steer away from epics, but maybe this is an exception, and at least you can be sure it isn't a remake of the Nibelungenlied...
...turns out that the Safeguard is simply not up to stopping the Soviet SS-19, a new missile that is able to steer a maddeningly serpentine course toward a target. Thus when the House recently acted on an Army request for $85.3 million for operating the completed Grand Forks site for a year, it voted instead to provide $45.3 million to close up the $5.7 billion installation for good...
Britain has also proposed buying a 51% government interest, or "participation," in private companies' ventures in the North Sea. Supposedly, this would eventually steer half the oil revenues and profits to the nation's treasury. But oilmen, and even a few government officials, see little point to participation. Britain can get its proper share of the spoils through tax and conservation laws already on the books, or headed for passage, without buying control...
...office really does enough right now to justify its existence is unclear. Many women know little or nothing about it, and many--especially those in the River Houses--feel no ties to the Radcliffe administration whatsoever. And women who do know about the place and are constantly trying to steer it along a strong feminist path often get frustrated by the lady-like, coffe-klatch atmosphere that prevails. Again, they mean well...
...home, a welcome if not a beloved figure, the President last week was relishing what he calls a "working vacation." He was doing what comes naturally: chatting with an earnest 4-H'er about the calories in a pineapple milkshake, patting the beefy flank of a prizewinning steer, comparing a wooden porch swing to the one owned by "a girl I used to court." But the brief Western trip had its serious side. The President's approval rating had dropped to 45% in the Gallup poll and to 38% in the Harris, so he was intent on explaining...