Word: steers
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...contacts. In the mid-1990s, while overseeing construction of an oil pipeline in northern Algeria, Elder learned from local sources of a series of killings committed by the rebel Groupe Islamique Armee. This intelligence scoop--the government didn't announce the killings for several days--allowed Elder to steer employees safely away from the danger zones and keep the project on schedule. Indeed, throughout his years as a corporate security manager for BECHTEL and as a consultant to other companies, Elder, now retired, says he never once recommended canceling a project. "My role was to determine what the risk...
First-years in Canaday C planned to steer clear of the Quad by setting little cardboard boats on fire down the Charles River last night as they awaited their housing assignments...
...fight one of the boxers had the name of a gambling websiite - goldenpalace.com - literally written on their skin. Because, you know, getting pummeled in front of a hooting crowd for a few more fleeting hits on the fame bong isn't truly humiliating unless you get branded like a steer...
...onstage. When people stop applauding, he thanks them for coming out in Iditarod weather, makes a few cracks about Enron and Arthur Andersen (the latter has its headquarters in Chicago), and the audience is his. He segues into the Olympic luge competition--"invented by a drunken German gynecologist; you steer with Kegels"--and then it is on to anthrax and botox, and then he jumps straight into Sept. 11. He gets cheers for a bit on a flight attendant telling passengers that in the event of a hijacking, a Louisville Slugger will fall from the compartment above--"Apply...
...mail sent Friday to the entire staff of the Review, Wetlaufer wrote that “the recent controversy has caused many on the staff to lose confidence in my ability to steer this organization...