Word: veer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Earthwatch staff member Bram de Veer said this may change in the future...
...visual omni-range) network -- hundreds of cone-shaped navigation beacons scattered across the U.S. Automatic flight-control systems depend on clear VOR signals to land planes safely when visibility is poor. But some of that VOR equipment has been behaving strangely of late, occasionally causing aircraft on autopilot to veer sickeningly out of control...
...today. In fact his happy marriage to the stunning Iman has inspired much of the material on his upcoming solo album, his first in six years. Just recorded, Bowie says it "will examine the twists and turns of companionship." He adds, "All my albums start out bleak and veer toward the depressing. This one will let the sun shine through." Sunshine, yes, and a little sax playing from Major...
Founders of the Majority Coalition, including Senators Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, say they want to veer away from divisive issues such as abortion and homosexuality, instead focusing on the economy and foreign policy...
...millennium is almost by definition a moment of extreme possibilities, arousing fantasies that veer wildly between earthly paradise and annihilation. "The human mind abhors a vacuum," says Michael Barkun, a political ; scientist at the University of Syracuse. "Where certainties are absent, we make do with probabilities, and where probabilities are beyond our power to calculate, we seek refuge from insupportable ignorance in a future of our own imagining...