Word: veer
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...knows the lobbyists haven't left the building. Alan Greenspan is still on the job, and Thursday night the Fed Chairman was expected to explain to a New York audience that the long-term prospects for the U.S. economy are just peachy. And if the business climate doesn't veer quite as dramatically from the light-footed course Bill Clinton set, well, there's always more important things to worry about than Washington...
Nailed to the doors of the White House this morning reporters found Vice President Cheney's 95 theses, actually 105 recommendations, for modernizing the nation's energy infrastructure, boosting fuel supplies, and throwing political bones to anyone whose environmental politics veer to the left of the President's - which is to say, anyone...
...personal reaction to it (such as having his hairs stand on end), begging the question of why the hell we would need Calasso to point them out. But this is not to suggest that this is a thesis-driven sort of book. No, no and no. The sections veer wildly from one topic to another (“Incipit Parodia,” “Musings of a Serial Killer,” and “Meters Are the Cattle of the Gods” are all chapters, and their content is almost as unrelated as their headings...
Forces of Habit affords the reader an in-depth understanding of the history of drugs in society, not tailored to a specific platform or program of reform. In fact, Courtwright mentions little about the future of drugs and the drug trade in his accounts, and when he does veer towards moral judgments, he states them simply and concisely. But if you're looking for a serious emotional scrutiny of present day drug issues, you'll have to go see the movie Traffic. Courtwright sticks to his historical format until the very end, taking only the final few paragraphs...
...through the thick city smog. This is their night, the night they look forward to all week during boring mornings at school or dull afternoons pumping gas. And as they ride massed together, you can almost feel the surge of pride oozing out of them, intimidating other drivers to veer out of their way, even truckers hitting the brakes as the gang roars past...