Word: steers
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...Billy Oddity”). A plangent line like “It’s hard to miss you,” sung repeatedly over a simplistic piano progression, would sound like a botched Coldplay outtake in anyone else’s hands, but Mojave manage to steer it from the brink...
...they headed home after failing to find a bike for Virgil. The boys took a rural stretch called the Docena-Sandusky Road, flanked by pine and mimosa trees rising from a tangle of swamp grass and kudzu. As Virgil clutched the handlebars, telling his brother where to steer, James says, they laughed about the girls they would pick up in their...
...money on the E.U.'s Galileo global positioning system; and investing in cleaner automobiles. "I don't think governments are very good at picking winners," says Dirk Schumacher, German economist at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt. "We do need infrastructure, but they shouldn't use this as an opportunity to steer the business cycle. In the past it hasn't worked, and I don't see why it should now." Further complications will arise next week, as representatives from all 25 member states begin formal discussions on the new constitution. It took 16 months of negotiating and the patriarchal hand...
...most vulnerable customers. Medicare recipients without supplemental insurance are already charged far more than anyone else, because they pay for their drugs out-of-pocket and have nobody to bargain on their behalf. Other government and private health plans use their purchasing power to blunt drug prices. They also steer patients toward cost-effective drugs by refusing to pay full freight for expensive brand-name drugs, whose claims to extra effectiveness are often dubious...
...Quite simply, they can stop trying so hard. Ever since the Napster debacle, I've tried my best to steer clear of purchasing music owned by RIAA member corporations. Not only have I discovered great bands from a large number of independent labels (and yes, bought their CDs), but I've avoided putting money into the pockets of an organization that refuses to work with programmers to build a practical solution, and instead insists on using counterproductive bully tactics. J.T. Stanton II Fairfax...