Word: tiller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Under Phase 3, the so-called land-to-the-tiller decree, peasants were permitted to buy the tiny plots (up to 17 acres) that they had been working as tenant farmers or sharecroppers. About 29,000 farmers, out of a potential 125,000, have applied for ownership...
...fissures in the troika of top presidential advisers, internecine foreign policy disputes, and ill-conceived actions that are raising questions about the Administration's sensitivity to issues of fairness and racial justice. The President compounded the uneasiness by projecting, with amiable vacuity, an unsteady hand on the tiller of state at his seventh press conference last week. He displayed a disconcerting lode of misinformation (see box), and a dubious grasp of the details of his own programs. The performance raised new questions about Reagan's control of the presidency, which were being asked even by some...
...consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank, Peter Shiras, describes the real state of the "reform": the first phase, the expropriation of the largest estates, was in large measure subverted by landlords; the second phase, which dealt with medium-size estates, indefinitely postponed; and the third, "land to the tiller" phase hopelessly mired in a bureaucratic maze. The right wing will not allow significant reforms, and, Shiras reports, government troops often interfere. He quotes one government official as saying: "The troops came and told the workers the land was theirs now. They could elect their own leaders...
Stephen A. Tiller...
...sophomore's older brother, John '83, who is also on the sailing team (he deferred entrance for a year to ski competitively), feels that Keane's natural ability to sail well lies is due to four factors; his concentration, his sense of the wind, his feel for the tiller, and his maturity...