Word: keener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military manufacturers will have to learn to cope with keener foreign competition, just as consumer-products companies have done. Otherwise, according to a report by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, "in place of the arsenal of democracy, the U.S. may find it has only the best pizza parlors in the world." Robert Costello, until recently the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition in the Pentagon, has urged American companies to enter into joint ventures with foreign manufacturers to capture more offshore business...
Still, this devotion must be balanced with an even keener concern--academics. Harvard athletes lead a difficult double life. They have two full-time jobs, one in the classroom and one on the field...
...keener obstruction to Bhutto's authority may be the traditional attitudes of Pakistan's Islamic people. Not all are eager to live under the first Muslim government headed by a woman. In the days prior to the election, 40 mullahs issued a fatwa, or religious verdict, warning that a nation headed by a woman cannot prosper and risks falling "into the pit of Western cultural degeneration...
...treaty eliminating intermediate-range nuclear - weapons in Europe because of domestic economic pressures, not because of NATO's deployment of its own missiles. That woolly assertion contributed to the impression that he was a naif on foreign policy. But as he quizzed the professors, Dukakis expressed a keener appreciation of the nuances. Out of the session came the foundation for a studiously centrist foreign policy address he gave last month. Says Harvard's Nye: "He has not changed his views or first principles, but he has been deepening his feel for the issues involved...
...minutes suffice to identify it as his. This quicksilver gift of language, joined with an almost infinite slyness about the tricky uses to which words can be put, makes Mamet a superb entertainer. He is a sort of American version of Harold Pinter, but funnier, raunchier and with a keener sense of the particularities of time and place...