Word: steers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows how events will play out in China. Yet reassessing the Tibetan issue as a solution to wider problems will help steer the potential for violence off course. Which brings me to Tong's conclusions and pleas. The Chinese have shown human rights to be at best a weak tool on the international front. So let's press for changing the State Department's empty words into action on Tibet, let's work towards getting the Chinese people and leaders to look again at the Tibetan issue. And, as sure as tax cuts for the wealthy and welfare cuts...
...your own two arms...well, if that doesn't get the ol' fight-or-flight response going, then nothing will." For such hearty individuals, he recommends a diet of "Testosteroni, the Pasta for Men--testis-shaped pasta made from the finest durum wheat seminola and enriched with natural steer androgens...
...expertise, the guts and, dammit, the nobility to solve this apocalyptic poser. Screenwriters Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool have given him a requisition brainy-dishy ex-wife (Rene Russo), an agitated boss (Morgan Freeman), a helpful colleague (Kevin Spacey, who is very good) and plucky Major Salt to steer Sam through an unlikely airplane battle at the climax. But in movies like this, a man must stand alone. It's a mild hoot to watch Certified Great Actor Hoffman play an action hero. Note the Clint-like glint in his eyes, the terse authority he gives such endearingly daft...
...fulfill affirmative action quotas, many white-male dominated businesses "steer female and minority workers to the sidelines, making them managers of public and community relations, human resources and, evidently without an eye to the irony, equal employment opportunity." The only women or minorities who seem to make it past the 'glass ceiling' into the 5 percent of non-white-male senior executive level are those who adopt the "chemistry, relationships and collaborations" (and golf handicaps) of the white male. As one CEO put it, "When we find minorities and women who think like we do, we snatch them...
...voted for by large majorities: a requirement that federal criminals pay restitution to their victims; a measure that would allow illegally seized evidence to be admissible at federal trials if police acted in "good faith"; further restrictions on federal habeas corpus appeals; and a prison-construction bill that would steer federal aid to states with tough sentencing laws...