Word: steers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Where's the authoritative and accurate all's well that Rubin delivered when Asian economies started rolling over in 1997? A deep understanding of the Street led Rubin to steer Clinton down the path of reducing the deficit and avoiding criticism of the Federal Reserve's interest-rate policies, consistently soothing markets at critical times...
...prepare for a kind of war and a kind of peace at the same time. The army, the right wing and his own Likud Party all want to hit the Palestinians harder; the few doves in his coalition, led by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, are desperately trying to steer Sharon away from military action. The Prime Minister himself is performing a balancing act in keeping his "national unity government" together. So far, he has fought hard and yet maintained the contacts that could lead to real negotiations; the combination has earned him a 70% approval rating. Driving it all, people...
...conference may be equally imperiled by the dispute over whether and how Western nations ought to take responsibility for the pain inflicted by the Atlantic slave trade. Reparations are anathema to the countries implicated in the slave trade, and that has prompted the Europeans and the U.S. to steer clear even of a formal apology for fear this would open the way to legal action for compensation. Still, some U.S. civil rights groups are pushing for the conference to address the reparations issue, and some African nations hope to persuade the West to cancel Africa's burdensome foreign debt...
...Condit is a dime-a-dozen, the blow-dried but not particularly bright Congressman who tends his own constituent garden and doesn't have any real involvement in issues of national importance. Their careers are not about service or ideology but about re-election - that is the star they steer...
...Despite mounting pressure from Washington and the Israelis to stop Palestinian attacks and arrest Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders, Arafat may be increasingly inclined to steer clear of a confrontation with the militants - and Sharon is unlikely to provide him any political cover in the form of tangible concessions to help Arafat sell any truce...