Word: keene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what caused the 1998 squeeze: company executives could not raise prices, no matter how much an increase might have been justified by rising costs, without losing market share to a host of U.S. and global competitors. The current rebound is more difficult to explain: competition is certainly no less keen, nor price boosts any less risky. But Abby Joseph Cohen, chair of the investment-policy committee of Goldman Sachs, gives much of the credit to corporate managers who have figured out effective strategies for prospering in that environment. To scratch beneath the surface, TIME looked at some of the enterprises...
...campaign 2000, "nobody will remember the fine points of why this legislation went down to defeat," says TIME assistant managing editor Priscilla Painton. They will remember that it did during a Republican watch. If properly handled by the Democrats, whose take so far on the public pulse has been keen, "the defeat of gun controls could make and save Al Gore?s presidential campaign," says Painton. He is the one who very publicly cast the tie-breaking vote when the Senate backed gun-show restrictions last month...
...Pankhurst's father was a Manchester manufacturer with radical sympathies. When she was small, she was consuming Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Bunyan and abolitionist materials; her earliest memories included hearing Elizabeth Cady Stanton speak. Her father was keen on amateur theatricals in the home; his daughter later enthralled the suffragists with her oratory and her voice. The young Rebecca West described hearing Mrs. Pankhurst in full cry: "Trembling like a reed, she lifted up her hoarse, sweet voice on the platform, but the reed was of steel and it was tremendous...
...Obviously he's very smart about all things economic, but beyond that he's just a very keen observer of people," Woodruff says. "He watches everything...
...Cliff-Keen Invitational at Las Vegas in early December, Harvard placed ninth out of 43 teams...