Word: steers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Bok was chosen, his job was to conciliate, to forge peace between the University's violently opposed factions. Because Bok succeeded, Rudenstine's job is to manage, to steer what has become a sprawling, multi-billion dollar corporation...
...libraries and schools; delivering meals to the homebound, assisting the handicapped or cheering the elderly. Want to join Jimmy Carter in building housing for the homeless? Call 800-HABITAT. There's no single national clearinghouse to match volunteers with jobs, but the National Volunteer Center (703-276-0542) can steer you to whichever of its 380 local affiliates is nearest. One area that might be of particular interest to a TIME reader: teaching kids or adults to read. If so, call the Literacy Hotline (800-228-8813) for the number of a local organization that needs your help...
...said he surprised Gurevich with an unconventional opening taken from an obscure Yugoslavian chess publication. "I managed to steer him onto unfamiliar territory," Rao said...
...infinitely subtle distinctiveness of temperature and smell and weather and noises and people, the intonations of the familiar. Each home is an unrepeatable configuration; it has personality, its own emanation, its spirit of place. Nature's refugees, like eels and cranes, are neither neurotic nor political, and so steer by a functional homing instinct. Human beings invented national boundaries and the miseries of exile; they have messier, more tragic forms of navigation that often get them lost. The earth is home, and all its refugees, its homeless, sometimes seem a sort of advance guard of apocalypse. They represent a principle...
...complicated -- and dangerous. Skimp on medical research, and your SimEarthlings are pestered by plagues. Cut back in the philosophy department, and wars break out. Let the master race linger too long in the industrial age, and the planet is choked with pollution. If, on the other hand, you steer your beings adroitly toward the ages of information and nanotechnology (molecule building), they will spontaneously load themselves into tiny spacecraft, turn the earth into a wildlife preserve and take off to colonize other planets -- the closest thing to "winning" this game...