Word: steers
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...Changes from the defeated version included a shift in about $2 billion from prevention to enforcement, bringing the total authorization for police hiring and training to $13.5 billion and for prison construction to $9.9 billion, while leaving $5.5 billion for recreational and educational programs designed to steer young people away from crime. Non- monetary provisions included tougher penalties for sex offenders and spouse abusers. Funding for the justice center at Lamar University was deleted. Over all, the bill was $3.3 billion cheaper than the conference bill defeated...
Like so much else about the Clinton operation, the February effort to steer the RTC probe was informal, haphazard and sometimes desperate. It appeared to accelerate every time Altman, who oversaw the RTC, tried to remove himself from management of the Madison probe. The key events...
...peace in Rwanda, so why are only 550 there? Because the governments that promised to supply those troops haven't equipped them to go, the U.N.'s top peacekeeping official complained today. Undersecretary-General Kofi Annan said the troops should "be deployed at full strength rapidly" to help steer the Rwandan refugees back home. For now, the mostly Canadian U.N. force is mostly on its own until 4,000 or more U.S. troops arrive within days. BTW: Americans have contributed at least $39 million in aid to Rwandan refugees this month, from $1 donations from 11 senior citizens...
...precisely the idea. With the intensity of a disaster-relief operation, the cities and towns of America have mobilized to ensure that the summer of '94 is filled with lively diversions instead of deadly teenage violence. Community leaders and parents have launched a record number of programs to steer youths away from gunfire and toward productive activity: work, play and education. And to put teeth into the campaign, dozens of towns have imposed strict curfews...
...legendary fifth Beatle, there is a fourth member of this trio: conductor Zubin Mehta. An internationally renowned maestro who will shuttle to Munich immediately after the concert to conduct Tannhauser the following night, Mehta is a big catch for what is basically a pops performance. "Somebody has to steer this boat," he says. On a promotional video, Mehta appears as happy as a child at play, mixing it up with his three hammy friends. This is a rare sight; he is famous for his podium scowl. The unwonted ebullience points to one of the charms of the Three Tenors format...