Word: keene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point of keen speculation is whether Gigante talks business with his younger brother Louis, a cussing, cigar-chomping, Roman Catholic priest who is celebrated for overseeing the creation of 2,000 low-income housing units. That reputation has been tarnished by accusations that Father Gigante's nonprofit group doled out tens of millions of dollars in government housing grants to Genovese-tied subcontractors. The priest claims he had nothing to do with the selection of these companies. "I purposely stayed out of it," he says. But the priest does commend one contractor, a Genovese captain who is now imprisoned...
...August vacation short to deal with his country's economic problems, publicly lambasted Saddam's "perfidy and blatant violation of international law." What's more, Soviet officials reportedly gave visiting Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saadoun Hammadi a dressing down over the hostage affair. But Moscow is not keen to see a military solution -- which the U.S. would clearly dominate -- rule out a diplomatic one, for which the Soviets might be key. Aside from Hammadi, Moscow has played host to Saudi special envoy Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, and has dispatched diplomats to Iraq by way of Syria, Egypt, Libya and Jordan...
...Brennan remains keen of mind, but his body is ailing. He fainted about three weeks ago while waiting to board a plane at Newark airport, but revived and went on to take a Scandinavian cruise. After his return to Washington, however, doctors told him he had suffered a mild stroke and urged him to ease up, advice Brennan took. On Friday night he sent a hand-delivered letter to the White House. Citing "my advancing age and medical condition," Brennan wrote that he was resigning "effective immediately...
...classic small business in the Western world and should become so again in East Germany. Despite the best efforts of the Communists to squeeze out the last private retailers, 17,000 were still in business when the Wall fell. Many of them are eager to expand. West German suppliers, keen to see a viable network of small retailers, are advancing goods on credit and helping in other ways like donating old cash registers and display cases. The threat to the independent East German retailer is no longer the bureaucrat but the competing capitalist...
...keen on boosting exports to Japan, but Ronald Hoffman may have gone too far. Federal agents arrested the Beverly Hills executive on June 14 for illegally exporting software designed for the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. Five Japanese companies, including Nissan Motor and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, have acknowledged buying the software, called Contam. Estimated prices: $150,000 to $450,000. Hoffman, 51, allegedly obtained the technology, designed for identifying missiles by their exhaust plumes, while working as an engineer on a Star Wars project in Los Angeles. If convicted, he faces a $1 million fine and ten years...