Word: steers
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...ground suggests otherwise. The fact is that the two candidates are vying for the throne for the same reasons as any two different executives of a corporation compete for the top position. While their strategies may differ greatly from each other, the outcome of the election does not necessarily steer the government in a different direction. Indeed, it is helpful to realize that the two parties are simply branches of the same strand--they are not separate, opposite entities as the voters are led to believe. Indeed, no matter which man gets elected, especially in the short run, the public...
...youth by giving them meaningful and caring relationships with adults, a positive legacy, respect and the possibility for a life filled with potential. These principles should be the international standard for making decisions for all children and adults. No longer should we expect children to navigate without a map, steer without a rudder or seek without a friend. JOHN R. SEITA Kalamazoo, Michigan Via E-mail...
Society needs to steer students toward science, he said, nothing that he himself became interested in medical research only after receiving a master's in English literature from Harvard...
...what's the verdict? If you want reliable information about where our species came from, steer clear of these two books and consult any of the several very readable nonfiction works recently published on the subject. If you want to read a novel that uses a contemporary paleoanthropologist's discovery of thought-to-be-extinct-but-alive-after-all hominids to launch an ingenious and thoughtful exploration of what it means to be human, see if your local library or used-book store still has a copy of Vercors' You Shall Know Them, which was published back in the 1950s...
...automatically send me to the guy in the black division," says Lenny Kravitz, whose guitar-driven music is deeply indebted to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, among others. "They would listen and say, 'We hear your talent, but you really can't make this music.' They would try to steer me toward pop." Guitarist Vernon Reid's sound reflects what he recalls as a "heretical" musical upbringing, shaped equally by Chaka Khan and Led Zeppelin. Angry and baffled by the failure of major record labels to acknowledge the music his band, Living Colour, and other adventurous musicians around New York...