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First, he tried to steer the United Kingdom through economic doldrums caused by the privatization of government industries during the 1980s...
...Jerusalem as Israel?s capital, prompting CEO Michael Eisner to give the assurance that the Holy City won?t be called anyone?s capital. It was reported Tuesday that Eisner had assured Saudi Arabia?s Prince Al Walid bin Talal, a major shareholder in EuroDisney, that the corporation would steer clear of the controversy. Last month, Burger King found itself in similar straits after it opened an outlet in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. The Home of the Whopper withdrew its franchise after activists threatened a boycott of its burgers throughout the Islamic world...
...tattooed, mutant kin of the Brady Bunch. The threat, fortunately, turns out to be an exaggeration. But Mormon Elder Alexander Morrison, fearing that Straight Edge could lure teenagers because it shares some philosophies with the church, uses three words to sum up a warning he sent to church leaders: "Steer them clear...
...gang-force detectives Robin Howell and Troy Siebert pull up to a perfect tract house in suburban Kearns on an assault investigation, imagine the horror of John Lim, a mail carrier who has tried to steer his three sons clear of Straight Edge. The detectives are in Lim's garage now, breaking down his stepson Jesse, 20, with a splendid good-cop, bad-cop routine. Jesse admits throwing a pipe at another kid during a fight at a cemetery, but he downplays the gravity of what police are calling a possible felony assault and swears that...
...into the cockpit. Recently a colleague demurred when Kennedy offered him a lift from Boston to New York, explaining that he felt uncomfortable in single-engine airplanes. Kennedy shrugged off the concern. "When you have two [engines]," he reportedly said, "if one goes out, it's very difficult to steer the plane, because the other one is working." Of course, if one goes out when you have only one, you're left with none...