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...version was a Greater Cleveland Vocational Education Council, and its purpose was to "keep abreast of job skills in a rapidly changing technological society, and to steer students into those occupations of benefit to themselves and to industry...
...Jupiter aligns with Mars Then peace will guide the planets And love will steer the stars...
...favor of the ABM. In the highly unlikely event that Nixon chose to abandon this system, he would come under heavy fire from those Americans who voted for him at least in part because he promised to guarantee clear U.S. military superiority over the Soviet Union. To steer a cautious middle course between continuing the project as laid out by the Johnson Administration and ending it outright, could simply result in satisfying no one. Whatever the President's decision, in short, the battle over the ABM is almost certain to continue unabated...
Last June he became Xavier's president, a job that throughout the school's 43-year history had been held by white nuns who fully shared lay-Catholic Francis' own concern for improving educational opportunities for blacks. Francis' declared aim is "to steer students into the mainstream of American life," and he has very little patience for the radical Negroes who would rather go it alone. Students must be taught pride, he admits, but they must also be taught the tools with which to compete. "Math is math," he says. "It's not black math...
Where once the good, honest words "roast beef" sufficed, restaurateurs now add something like "blue-ribbon beef, thick and juicy." Diners know from experience that the steer got nowhere near a blue ribbon until it was served with a bottle of Pabst. From coast to coast, mashed potatoes appear on menus as "snowflake, creamery-whipped potatoes"; all vegetables, whether frozen, canned or left over from yesterday, are called "garden fresh." In Minneapolis, broiled rock lobster tails turn into "Queen of Hearts"; in Los Angeles, capon becomes "Tower of London"; in New York, string beans metamorphose into "Long Johns." The Hawaiian...