Word: steers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...others, who are worried that the Bells would use their clout in local markets and local politics to steer customers toward signing up with them for long-distance service. Competitors fret too that the Bells already have the phone lines, switches and other equipment in place to enable them to enter the long-distance business before new companies can begin to offer local service...
...organ is morally reprehensible. It leads to fears about the wealthy procuring organs much faster and leaving the poor at an incredible disadvantage. Also, this method has been tried in Third World nations. The chaos it has created in Egypt with a black market for organs should steer other countries away from trying...
...compromise Republican right. But because of his long years as a Senate dealmaker, the party's most insatiable conservatives still have deep misgivings about Dole. In recent weeks they have been venting them on Burke, the person most likely to run his White House as chief of staff or steer social policy as Secretary of Health and Human Services. It is nothing short, says Burke, of "an orchestrated effort to get Dole to remove me from my job." Dole says that will not happen and bristles at suggestions that she somehow controls him. "I don't know...
...Microsoft got religion about the Internet in a big way that day," says Release 1.0's Michalski. Product managers went back to Redmond determined to make their programs Internet-compatible. The Microsoft Network, originally intended as a straightforward commercial online service, was redesigned to embrace the Internet and eventually steer it in a profitable direction. Microsoft crafted a strategy by which the company could make it easier for people using Microsoft software to do everyday transactions over the networks-pay bills, order from catalogs, check bank balances. "Our plan," says Myhrvold, "is to make the pie really big and take...
After biding his time for almost 20 years, Jacques Chirac has made it: he has been elected President [FRANCE, May 15]. But now that Chirac is in, he faces a most fearsome task, as he will have to steer a tricky course between the conflicting aspirations of voters who range from youths and unemployed people to the upper class. What's more, boosting growth by hiking wages and limiting the public deficit might turn into a headache. Let's just hope that the political animal's cherished slogan, "France for All," won't become a dead letter. So many hopes...