Word: steers
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Civilians can buy similar products from electronics companies. GPS receivers steer boaters around dangerous reefs, track schools of bait for fishermen and help pilots avoid midair collisions. The price of a receiver -- $1,500 to $3,800 -- is steep for Scout troops but falling rapidly...
...this happening to you, ask questions about the job they have available, and discuss your qualifications for it. Don't be passive. Don't answer questions in monosyllables. Be informative, direct, and succinct in your responses. Steer the interviewer into discussion of your interest in the company...
...Federal Government has tried to steer clear of infertility issues. Under pressure from right-to-life lobbies, it quietly cut funds for in vitro research in 1980, despite a Health Department study that called such a ban "neither justifiable nor wise." Last fall Congress appropriated $3 million for three contraceptive centers and five infertility centers. But because of the government's ban on funding IVF research, the scientists haven't been able to begin their work. "Britain and Australia are surpassing us in research because of the restraints we face in this country," says Harvard's Ryan. "The U.S. government...
Gorbachev met frequently with Boris Pugo, who had become Interior Minister on Dec. 2, 1990. In these conversations Pugo was careful to steer clear of the fundamental issue of whether the Baltic republics were entitled to independence. Instead he stayed within the bounds of his responsibility for law and order. With the Baltics acting as though they were already sovereign states, he said, the situation was "spinning out of control"; if the Baltics succeeded in defying Moscow, other republics would be encouraged to do the same...
...same sources. At one point, addressing representatives of the republics, Gorbachev read excerpts from an Alexander Hamilton essay in The Federalist Papers to back up his advocacy of a federal tax system under which the central government would collect at least some revenues directly. He was trying to steer them away from proposals, primarily from Yeltsin, for a plan in which the republics collect all the money and pass on a portion to the Kremlin...