Although we, as parents, are usually motivated to reduce the risks they take, our energy would be better spent steering them toward healthy risks.
He was a cautious man, glacial in his pace, whose early years as president were spent steering his nation through a minefield of economic and political crises.
TO justify spending hours steering dimpled balls into plastic cups, many business people explain that golf is great for building relationships with clients.
He has also chopped hundreds of millions of dollars in state and federal welfare spending by steering recipients into jobs and cutting the caseload from 238,000 in 1994 to 74,800 in January -- the lowest in 30 years.
"You have to be sparing with the word 'historic,' " said Justice Minister Heiko Maas, who with a Social Democrat colleague, Family Minister Manuela Schwesig, spent months steering the law over legal and political hurdles.
My five year old nephew frequently totes his mom's I-pad into my room, sits down in my chair and spends hours steering race cars or petting purple tigers through the touchscreen.
Mr. Annan had spent several weeks steering through multiple objections to a long list of candidates.
Frank has spent recent months steering his financial reform package through a legislative minefield.
The president has spent the past decade steering a careful course between Serb nationalists on the one hand and western blandishments on the other.
He has spent a decade steering a delicate path between active conservationism and conservative politics, earning praise and criticism from both sides.
