Word: keen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This competition marathon is undeniably good practice for life after Harvard. Graduates will have developed a keen eye for looking over their shoulders and constitutions that feed on the endless challenge of more and more work. After all, getting ahead is what matters. Who needs something as unproductive as a languid autumn afternoon...
...Russell D. Rivera '00 is the play-by-play announcer. All season long, he's been offering play-by-play commentary on WHRB for fans listening at home in Cambridge. Russell's been covering football since 1996, and he's not too keen on the idea of this being his final Harvard-Yale Game...
...stable of heavily credentialed experts. Besides, in Austin, at the statehouse and in campaign headquarters on Congress Avenue, his distaste for the highbrow is considered a virtue. In meetings with his speechwriter and press staff, Bush reviews the words that will go out under his name with a keen eye for the pompous and overwrought. When he spots a sentence that wouldn't make sense to the average layman, Bush peers over his half glasses and reads it back to his staff in a haughty, mock-intellectual voice. "He's always asking,'How can we say it more directly?'"says...
Martha Stewart's success may be due to a keen business mind [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 1], but I'd say it's because she never discards anything. Once she told us not to toss the toilet-paper roll because it would make a dandy bird toy. Next I fear she'll say, "Wait, don't flush..." TOM MURRAY San Luis Obispo, Calif...
...shop, in Sydney, Australia. Earlier this month it opened a new two-story, 5,000-sq.-ft. store--complete with a coffee bar--on Dublin's fashionable O'Connell Street. And the firm plans to open outlets early next year in Tokyo and even Saudi Arabia. Gold is also keen to take her sex wares to America. She's had preliminary discussions with potential franchisees in New York and Florida. "We want to be in every major city in the world," Gold insists. The company is basing its expansion program on the shops, then hopes to introduce home parties...