Word: steers
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Government officials say they try to steer Iraqis to smaller towns, where housing is cheaper and their skills are in greater demand. But Iraqis resist. "It's a major problem for us," says Mattias Sjöberg, a migration officer at the Swedish Migration Board in Stockholm. "We send people to the north or down south, but in the end many Iraqis end up in Stockholm, where there is a [Muslim] community...
...releasing this year is actually black,” he said, “I don’t think we should call him Hallyu.” Jin-Young Park denied that his work was even part of the wave and said he was uncomfortable with attempts to steer Hallyu in a nationalist direction. His stand led to a disagreement with Jung-Sook Park, who is a cultural ambassador-at-large for South Korea. Responding to him at length, she conceded that the cultural issue was complex...
Hall, who has visited a number of residential institutes for scholars, said she’s never attended an institute where the dean has been so intellectually engaged. Hall described Faust as one of those rare people who can steer you through the most difficult situations and catch a movie when you want to relax on the weekends. “Those don’t go together very often,” Hall says. “She moves into all these realms with this grace, humor, and wisdom,” she continues. “You?...
Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Drew Gilpin Faust will be the 28th person, and the first female, to take the helm of Harvard in its 371 year history. Like her 27 predecessors, she will attempt to steer the school and its students toward that ever-elusive (and often nebulous) destination: “VERITAS.” Yet the methods, goals, and beliefs of Harvard’s past presidents have not always reflected the selfsame notion of truth...
...does the “low-profile” Faust, known for her “subtle skill” and “compassion,” have the requisite vision to steer this $30-billion ship, with its crew of cranky and coddled professors...