Word: keen
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This attitude is grounded in a keen awareness of the academic marketplace. In an age when job opportunities for Ph.D.s vary widely from discipline to discipline. Texas A&M pays close attention to competition outside the university in setting faculty salaries. Groot says...
...Black vote. The city is 15 percent Black, and the figure for all California is only 7 percent. Bradley's precious successes were only possible with the support of a coalition that includes Chicanos. Blacks, liberals and white moderates. To keep the coalition together, Bradley has combined keen political maneuvering with a scrupulous attention to being fair and "balanced...
Normally, Hanover, New Hampshire is a fairly quiet place. Dartmouth College exists there as "the granite of New Hampshire," as its leaders like to say--a solid institution whose changes, though perceptible to the keen observer, are usually so gradual that they appear natural. Except for an innovative college calendar which requires students to spend a summer at the College on the hill. Dartmouth's administration has usually adopted fairly conservative policies. Dartmouth, for instance, was the last Ivy institution to admit women as undergraduate degree candidates (although the first woman graduate student received her degree...
...spite of its moments of high comedy, this is the most sobering and illuminating book to be written about Soviet society in decades. Nothing else in print gives so persuasive a picture of moral squalor in everyday life. It is an insider's book, written by a keen observer with special access to legal records and 17 years of experience as a defense attorney and professor of law. Indeed, so great is Simis' expertise that in 1976 KGB men raided his apartment and confiscated an early manuscript version of the book. He was obliged to leave the Soviet...
...Directors--is simply good business management. To curb a spendthrift Harvard community, the original student founders mandated in the constitution that payment for goods be in cash only. The cash-only requirement has since changed--as any undergraduate carrying that all-important red plastic well knows--but the same keen business sense still permeates the operation...