Word: steers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Life has many quirks," Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is fond of saying. One of the strangest for Farrakhan was sharing a stage last week in Baltimore with a number of African Americans who usually steer clear of him, including Jesse Jackson and Malcolm X's widow Betty Shabazz, who has declared her belief that Farrakhan played a role in her husband's assassination three decades ago. But the person who stirred the most controversy by sitting at Farrakhan's elbow was the man who invited him: Benjamin Chavis, the chief executive of the National Association for the Advancement...
Rosty became chairman of Ways and Means in 1981. His tenure opened with a stinging defeat: the committee opted for Ronald Reagan's tax cuts over Rosty's opposition. But the chairman recovered to steer the landmark tax reform of 1986 past all sorts of shoals and obstacles to enactment. He has handled his colleagues adroitly, knowing just when to trade a tax break narrowly benefiting a particular committee member's constituents in return for the * member's vote on a more important matter...
...mask as he notes each person's views and registers the course of the discussion and argument. He knows the weight of his opinion and holds it in reserve until it is deemed necessary. If there is a deadlock he attempts to resolve it. Otherwise he tries to steer the argument toward consensus...
...find the genes: the discrete segments of DNA that are the basic units of heredity. For scientists racing to map the human genome (as the complete set of genes is called), the past year has been extraordinarily productive. With automated cloning equipment and rough computerized maps to steer them through the vast stretches of DNA, scientists are finding human genes at the rate of more than one a day. In the past 12 months they have located the genes for Huntington's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, the so-called bubble-boy disease, the disease featured in the film Lorenzo...
...addition, the CUE Guide lists only teaching fellows who have received high ratings. While this is helpful, bad teaching fellows are not listed and thus, students can not steer clear from the TFs who could make a semester miserable...