Word: steers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Film makers must steer clear of Hollywood's glamour if they are to produce worthwhile movies, Mira Nair '78 said at Radcliffe College's Rama Mehta Lecture last night...
Political apathy among students may befurthered by the tendency among campus politicalgroups to steer clear of local politics...
...part, Utah went after new business with a one-stop-shopping regulatory agency and a program to steer youth toward high-tech jobs. (Utah claims its population is the most literate and youthful in the U.S.) It has a sophisticated state "center of excellence" that screens scientific and technological research projects with an eye to bringing the most promising to market. To convert miners into machinists, the state finances retraining programs both on campuses and at companies. State officials argue that it is no accident that McDonnell Douglas has laid off thousands of its workers in Long Beach, California; Mesa...
...levees or through gravity drains that are closed during floods but reopened to allow a backflow into the river.) Then comes the monumental task of cleanup. The receding waters will leave behind all manner of wreckage. Examples: the floating chicken coops and broken tree branches Paul Rice has to steer his flat-bottomed boat past to reach his submerged home in St. Charles County. Or the lumber, three ice chests and four plastic garbage cans he has plucked from the waters around his house and placed on his roof -- still a foot above the waterline. In some areas, agricultural chemicals...
...patients, the reforms may mean a more restricted choice of doctors, or else paying a greater portion of the bill. Many corporate plans seek to steer patients to physicians who join a health-maintenance organization (HMO) or so- called preferred-provider organization (PPO) by cutting reimbursements to employees who insist on consulting "outside" doctors. But this is supposed to be offset by other benefits: fewer and simpler (or maybe no) maddening reimbursement-claim forms to fill out, to cite one. To the uninsured, the reforms provide a chance to buy policies now unavailable. Many states, for example, are sharply restricting...