Word: keening
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...Since the People's Republic already enjoys near-free trade with New Zealand, its financial gains will likely be small. Wellington negotiators have said the Chinese were keen on access to agricultural technology and easier entry for niche workers like chefs and acupuncturists. But for Beijing, the deal's key value is as a trial run. Free-trade agreements are part of China's global push for the status and influence of a big power. The negotiation with New Zealand, says the Trade Association's Ferguson, will serve as "a template for bigger, more complex deals" - a pilot project where...
...keen a political ear in a candidate, though, can be a liability, since it can keep him or her from hearing anything else--like the facts. Clinton's biggest error so far has been bending events to bolster her credentials, as with her exaggeration of the danger she faced on a 1996 trip to Bosnia. Moreover, several of her advisers complain that she has been late to embrace big foreign policy ideas. When I asked if Clinton had tackled the question of foreign assistance as a tool of counterterrorism, for example, an adviser said some aides keep trying to "push...
...company of several musicians and industry folk who mill around after the show, Wallach is nothing if not an intent and tenacious self-promoter, bringing the same keen and determined energy to networking as he does to performing. Looking to explore the evening’s after-party prospects, he questions rapper Pusha T of the rap duo Clipse...
...British choreographer Wayne McGregor, whose credits include Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as well as groundbreaking new works for dance, theater and opera companies, is keen to throw open the doors of those upstairs rooms. "A choreographer is someone who's engaged with physical thinking," he says. "Someone who's applying the technology of the body to concepts and philosophies...
Some of Britain's most distinguished journalists genuflected to John McCain as he emerged from his first meeting with Gordon Brown on Thursday morning. Observers later reported that the meeting had been a workmanlike affair, 45 minutes long and short on chitchat. Both politicians appeared keen to cut straight to the burning issues of the day: Iraq (a polite disagreement over Britain's plans to scale down its troop deployment), Afghanistan (praise for Britain's role and concern over the challenges), climate change (a bad thing), Tibet ("very disturbing," said McCain afterwards). For Brown, it was an opportunity...