Word: keening
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...American public, surprisingly keen on some form of health insurance reform, blames the Republican Party more than President Clinton or Democrats for failing to deliver in 1994, according to a new poll by Newt Gingrich's favorite pollster. But the survey -- conducted by Frank Luntz for a consortium of major hospitals, managed-care companies and pharmaceutical firms that actively opposed the Clinton plan -- says the public would still favor a GOP-backed plan, sight-unseen, over any new Clinton initiative, 44 to 32 percent. Although few people expect Republicans to deliver anything next year, the poll indicates there's still...
...years of fear and hardship in captivity made the South African leader hard to know. "He is not a publicly introspective person," observes Stengel. "He'll tell you what he thinks, but not how he feels." At such impasses, Stengel needed all his journalistic prowess. "Rick has a tremendously keen eye for detail and the telling anecdote," says executive editor Jim Kelly. "He'd be the ideal companion to sit with someone and persuade them to describe scenes and encounters in the liveliest way possible...
Competition for openings in Asia's top research centers is keen. The Ph.D. he received from Indiana University wasn't good enough, jokes Huan Chang, now at Taiwan's Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences. "I had to go to Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow to get myself coated in a layer of gold." There is a frontier spirit in these fast-growing intellectual boom-towns that attracts job seekers with a taste for adventure. Calcutta-born Uttam Surana, an ambitious young biologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, turned down an offer from Germany's venerable...
...were disturbed by The Crimson article ("Author: West Wars against Islam," news story, Nov. 9) on the speech of Imam Imran Hosein. Rather than focusing on the content of the speaker's presentation, the article only rehashed false but popular stereotypes of Muslims. Such a portrayal was a keen disappointment, especially in week observed by Muslim organizations nationwide with the hope of increasing the community's understanding of Islam...
...spare time, Wambold was "a keen golfer," according to Dingman, and enjoyed playing drums in a band. He was taking classes in finance at Northeastern University, Norma Wambold said...