Word: keen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city gave up on every policy other than rent control," says Robert H. Kuehn Jr., president of Keen Development Corporation, a large firm that owns and manages low-income housing in Cambridge and other Bay State communities...
...make significant additions to Hilton's hotel holdings. Last week he found what he was looking for--more than 130,000 rooms. Those lodgings happen to do business under the banner of Sheraton, which happens to be owned by ITT Corp. and run by Rand Araskog, a man not keen on having his corporate masterwork painted over. That's why Hilton's $55-a-share, $6.5 billion offer for ITT, whose holdings also include the Caesars World chain of casinos and Madison Square Garden, is becoming the kind of delicious dogfight that Wall Street loves...
...eyes less keen than Lucas', the changes may appear to be more of a marketing tool than a genuinely significant embellishment of what was still a perfectly enjoyable film. Lucas now claims to be happy with "about 80%" of Star Wars--and annoyed with purists who resent his mucking about with a classic. After all, Star Wars is his movie. "The only thing I joke about now is it would be fun--and we can't do this for another 10 years or so--to go back and digitize the entire movie and clean it up. But that's such...
...Cosby's, says the actor's face lit up every time Ennis entered the room. Though he kept his family out of the public eye, Cosby would let the subject of Ennis drag out a conversation--with his son becoming a loving punch line to jokes. He was always keen to remind people that Ennis was a natural and graceful athlete, interrupting a 1985 Playboy interviewer, for example, to say, "Young Ennis, by the way, is now 6 ft. 3 in. tall." In his 1987 book, Time Flies, Cosby makes a mock complaint about Ennis being a reluctant athlete...
Both his love and his criticism are tempered by his keen intellect and the immigrant's perspective on what he found in this country that was utterly different from what he left in Nazi Europe. As a young man, he is struck by the silliness of American attention to newspaper comic strips. He sees Superman as "something out of Nietzsche and vaguely associated with Nazi theories of a master race." But in the same strip he is able to see the positive side to this American absurdity: "I sensed America's ability to domesticate menace and shrink giants...