Word: steers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America's larger perpetuation of a two-tiered society--separate and unequal. Throughout history, lawmakers, bankers and realtors conspired to isolate blacks into housing projects or to confine them to certain neighborhoods. This continues today, as audits by the Department of Housing and Urban Development show that realtors still steer 90 percent of prospective white and black homeowners toward homes in separate neighborhoods...
...THIS TIME, A PRESIDENTIAL RACE needs a working metaphor, a compass for the voters to steer by. In 1988 we got "competence vs. ideology," which meant "Whom do you want behind the desk when the phone rings and the Soviet empire collapses?" Then in 1992 we got "change vs. the status quo," which meant "Isn't it time to host a revolution of our own?" But now, as Bob Dole cinches his party's nomination to do battle with Bill Clinton, we find that the race is between two middlemen with rather similar ideas about what government should do, both...
...Dole has been intimately involved with Social Security for two decades and has shown considerable courage. In 1985 he had the guts and skill to steer through the Senate a one-year elimination of cost-of-living increases, a deficit-reduction measure later blamed for the G.O.P.'s loss of the Senate in 1986. Yet last summer, when I asked him if leadership didn't demand that he at least remind seniors that they get far more out of Social Security than they pay in, Dole said, "I'm not gonna tell them that. There's something called suicide...
That's because Eppard had served as the closest of advisers to E.G. ("Bud") Shuster of Pennsylvania, who after the 1994 election was suddenly elevated to chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, a position from which he can steer billions of dollars to specific projects and industries. And while House rules put a 12-month ban on Eppard's directly lobbying her boss of 22 years, she had free access to the rest of the committee and its staff. She kept her job as Shuster's chief Washington fund raiser, earning $3,000 a month for arranging receptions...
...networks' more pressing concern is the bottom line. The V chip will, inevitably, reduce the potential audience for shows marked with the scarlet letter. That means advertising revenue will go down. What's more, a violence label may scare off many advertisers and thus cause programmers to steer clear of provocative shows. "The thing nobody is taking into account," says Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, "is that there's going to be a V-chip warning on Homicide, NYPD Blue, Law & Order, ER, Chicago Hope--any of the adult dramas that deal with real-life substantive issues. Once that happens...