Word: veer
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...while. Having been Finance Minister for the past five years, Giscard might be expected to set aside any costly new social programs that would interfere with efforts to control a rate of inflation running upwards of 18% a year. Foreign policy under both men would probably not veer markedly from Gaullist tradition, although Mitterrand might well maintain an even more abrasively independent stance toward the U.S. and NATO...
...long strips crisscrossing the desert veer from a straight line by only a few yards every mile. The accompanying triangles, rectangles and trapezoids are laid out with equal precision. In their midst are drawings of huge spiders, a giant nine-fingered monkey, birds, fish and reptiles, some of them so large they are recognizable only from the air. For decades these ancient patterns, spreading across 30 miles of Peru's desolate Nazca plain, have confounded archaeologists. Why were they so painstakingly etched out of the bleak mesa? Could they have been signals to the gods, or-as the current...
...picking up letters on the 49th floor of Chicago's 110-story Sears Tower-and should do much better. He will probably never bump into anyone or anything, never pause for idle chatter or flirtation, or stop for more than 42 seconds at any one desk -indeed, never veer from any of his appointed rounds. If his fellow Sears employees find this paragon irritatingly inhuman, they can be excused. For the methodical new mailboy is a robot...
Harvard's defense--formerly, number one in the nation--took another statistical beating, giving up 533 yards to Penn's explosive Veer offense. Unable to key on Clune because of Bellizeare, the defense gave up its yardage in huge gobs...
...number of monsters, including the manticore-a creature with the head of a man, the body of a lion and the tail of a dragon. It is himself, the barbed and beastly rationalist. The colloquies between patient and healer are of a high order; now and then they veer unexpectedly into a mad kind of comedy, as when he tells of the attempt of his socially ambitious stepmother and an inept dentist friend to mold a plastic death mask from his father's corpse, with the result that the old man goes to his grave lacking eyebrows...