Word: keen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could be tapped: In New York, the former Clinton appointee has distinguished himself as a keen reformer under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. An attorney by training, Klein has also shown himself adept at working with unlikely partners - union leaders as well as the Rev. Al Sharpton - and is a major proponent of charter schools, a keystone in Obama's education agenda...
Much of today's deflation anxiety results from keen awareness of the Japanese experience of the 1990s. Indeed, New York Federal Reserve governor and vice chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee Timothy Geithner was Treasury attaché in the Tokyo embassy for the first half of that decade. That's when a widespread banking crisis led to a credit crunch, an economic slump and eventually interest rates that were lowered to zero by the Bank of Japan. Even so, Japan's banks, which were in the process of repairing their balance sheets, were extremely reluctant to lend. Thus, even...
...Moreover, Senator Obama has a keen sense of the complex dynamics at work within the Middle East. His grasp of the situation in Pakistan and Iran indicates his knowledge of the region; months before Operation Shock and Awe commenced, Obama knew Iraq was far from the focal point of American strategic interests. The invasion of Iraq distracted the world from Iran and other threats; John McCain and the Republicans’ refusal to pull troops out will only sustain that diversion. Obama has repeatedly said that he will not tolerate a nuclear Iran, and there is no reason to believe...
...Maldonado would know. As co-chair of the Massachusetts chapter of Youth for McCain, she offers one of many testimonials to the unpopularity of her party on campus. Harvard Republicans are consistently outnumbered during their undergraduate careers, allowing them to develop a keen sense of their opposition...
...Congo, the problem is insufficient resources. Maybe MONUC has to be reinforced and upgraded. In Darfur, you have a lackluster result, yes, but you had to have peacekeepers with a mandate that was accepted by the government. A full-bore invasion [would have had] catastrophic results." Evans is also keen to highlight "unheralded, unacclaimed" R2P successes like in Kenya this year and in Burundi in the early years of the decad - both cases in which strong diplomatic intervention prevented ethnic clashes from descending into wider ethnic wars...