Word: steers
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...without such character and are the drinkers and drug addicted students of today." As members of the depraved generation described, we are naturally waiting with bated breath for those law-abiding and morally sound future members of the Class of 2004 to show up and steer us away from our evil temptations. Until then, we will have to live under the regime of our generational brethren from George Orwell...
Fifteen years ago, an extraordinary epiphany drew William Wylie Tomes Jr. to a series of Chicago housing projects, including Cabrini-Green. Since then, as a Roman Catholic lay worker, he has embraced the people of the projects as if they were family and tried to steer them off the path to an early grave. As a consequence, Brother Bill is perhaps the only outsider who can walk freely through the 15 buildings that make up Cabrini-Green or penetrate the paranoid, often vicious circle the gangsters have built around themselves...
...return. (This may be the sort of thing the career counselors had in mind when they said the diplomatic corps was not a realistic option for me.) If a Frenchman expresses his inability to understand why Americans eat so much frozen food, I can be counted on to steer the conversation around to the wartime behavior of Vichy France...
TIME: Independent counsel Ken Starr will continue to pursue whether you committed perjury or obstructed justice. Do you think the dismissal of this case should cause him to steer clear of your personal life...
Perhaps no form of government," said Lord Bryce, "needs great leaders as much as democracy." For democracy is not self-executing. It takes leadership to bring democracy to life. Great democratic leaders are visionaries. They have an instinct for their nation's future, a course to steer, a port to seek. Through their capacity for persuasion, they win the consent of their people and call forth democracy's inner resources...