Word: keen
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...northern Virginia, it was $33,578. One of the reasons that the rest of the country begrudges these people their incomes is that the rest of the country is indirectly paying for them through increased taxes to an increasing Government. And of course the hangers-on have a keen interest in seeing the Government grow...
Cheryl Hollmann Keen, a graduate student at the School of Education and co-director of the staff, said yesterday the committee staff is willing to work at CfIA. "The main potential drawback of eliminating the Faculty committee is that we would have to change our name and might lose our page in the course catalog," she added...
...professors on the committee have not been actively involved with its programs for two years, Keen said. The committee began in 1974 as the ad hoo committee on Peace and Conflict Studies and has been listed in the undergraduate course catalog since it became a standing committee...
...several years, the Faculty were active and our activities were expanding, but now the budget is tight and we can only maintain our current programs," Keen said, adding, "We will gladly switch to the CfIA--the only hitch is, where is the money going to come from...
That is certainly not the case. Most Americans are dependable and forthright-most of the time. Enough people fall short of square dealing, however, to have left Americans a keen hunger for someone to trust. While political lying may have entered an "era of mass production," as Critic Robert Adams says in Bad Mouth, the problem of deception goes far beyond politics. Many people in academia, in science, in engineering, in medicine, in law, in the crafts-all have been caught in the act of exercising the scruples of a fly-by-night lightning-rod salesman. Skulduggery turns...