Word: keening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Administration has been properly apologetic and Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis appears to have understood the problem: "I think students will appreciate more choice. That's one thing that students have quite rightly complained about in the past," she said. With this kind of keen insight, we are disappointed that the Core Review Committee did not complete their reforms in time to have implemented some positive changes this year...
...House Science Committee chairman has been against sending any more boys up that way since June's collision between the Spektr module and a cargo ship, and wants to protect Wolf from becoming "an assistant Mr. Fix-It" aboard the embattled Russian station. That Wolf himself is quite keen to go appears to be beside the point...
...glowing Barker Center. I helped unpack books and move them into new (but, admittedly, smaller) offices. I reveled in the brilliant light and wide open spaces of the atrium and conference rooms. I even loved the new Xerox machines I would learn to use and took a rather too-keen interest in mahogany office furniture. "Isn't this great?" I asked passersby. "Yes, it's nice," they replied, but some of them seemed sad to have left their comfortable, roomy former offices across...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: When is a donation not a donation? That's the question the Senate campaign finance inquiry will be very keen to ask Al Gore when they reconvene today. Trouble is, the Vice President doesn't seem to know the answer. Two allegations of fund-raising faux pas emerged Wednesday, and in both cases Gore claimed to be utterly unaware of what he was doing. First of all, says the Veep, he didn't know an April 1996 event at a California Buddhist temple had been a fund-raiser. Secondly, some of that $695,000 he raised in those...
...cover story in 1969, she interviewed Vladimir Nabokov in the Swiss hotel where he lived. Her description of the Winter Dining Room there was an early example of her keen eye: "a smallish chamber in the hotel basement, which, despite lavish importation of daffodils and red tulips, is a frightful miniature of desolation." That was one of many reports that caught the eye of managing editor Henry Grunwald, who promoted her to senior editor. "She dazzled us with her sheer intelligence and her gentle, ironic smile. We knew that we had a treasure in Martha and that...