Mr. Lewis, 77, is a former chairman of the appropriations committee who was known for steering dollars and defense projects to his state and district.
He is credited with steering Carlyle into successful defense industry acquisitions -- just when other investors were shunning them -- and with using his seat on more than a dozen corporate boards to bring Carlyle deals and investors.
The 62-year-old contracting veteran is the most powerful and prominent woman in the macho world of defense contracting, steering her company through a significant downturn in government spending.
FAMILIAR FACE Louisiana State's defense has been steering the program in recent seasons, and Coach Les Miles hired the well-traveled Cam Cameron as his new offensive coordinator in an attempt to score more points.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell makes the list for giving taxpayer dollars to a former employee's lobbying firm and for steering a contract to a defense contractor accused of bribing the Saudi ambassador to the United States.
What's the greater threat, Sagan asks Ferris — an asteroid hitting the Earth or a madman taking control of the asteroid-defense system and steering one our way?
"We are greatly concerned that innocent people risk conviction, and are left without a defense," Troy Barber, a steering committee member at Sensible Washington, said in an e-mail.
For effective provision of critical care, understanding the alterations in the plasma metabolome is crucial, because metabolite levels impact the regulation of anti-inflammatory defenses, in turn, through steering critical cellular processes and immune mechanisms.
He is on the steering committees of the International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses and the Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment.
But Vescovi did not go wrong, steering into a favorable position resulting from Schneider's Winawer Variation of the French Defense and winning with a sure hand.
Steam-powered steering gear was installed in the sisters in 1887 and they were reclassified as coast-defense ironclads on 13 February 1892.
