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...anniversary ceremony for the division, he cut the huge birthday cake with a sword. "We don't use swords to make wars any more," beamed Thieu, "just to cut cake." The division commander, Major General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, thanked the President and urged him "to continue to steer the national boat." It was advice that Thieu is obviously chafing to accept...
Airport, he shot right past the honor guard and band. Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas had to steer him back to the reviewing stand to hear the Marseillaise and God Save the Queen...
...reported $17 million. "There should be only four national newspapers in Britain today," he says. "It doesn't make sense to have more." Time seems certain to prove him right, and clearly His Lordship hopes the Times will be among the survivors. But unless he can steer it out of the sea of red ink soon, the flagship of Fleet Street just may not make...
...deal with the Japanese are struck by their practice of making business calls in groups. The Japanese come so well prepared for conferences that some Americans believe that they have rehearsed their speaking parts, like actors in a play. On almost all occasions, the Japanese courteously but firmly steer the conversation to commerce. They are patient and persistent bargainers. Even on a golf course, overseas Japanese businessmen occasionally jot down notes of a conversation between putts...
...good measure, Ky jeered that the country has become "a rotten boat with a deceptively good coat of paint. The men who steer the boat," he added, "are unfaithful, disloyal, ungrateful people...