Word: keening
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...Brown, who was once so keen to crow about a successful decade spent steering the British economy, the turnabout is hard to stomach. Opposition pols have been keen to make hay. "We will not back nationalization," Tory Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said. "We will not help Gordon Brown take this country back to the 1970s." While that's unlikely to happen - it's been years since Labour could pretend to be a Socialist party - Brown's government will be hoping the same decade offers a useful precedent. When Rolls-Royce was on the brink of collapse in 1971, Osborne...
...Letting an Israeli onto the tennis courts serves to Qatar's advantage. The emirate is competing to host the 2016 Olympic Games, so it is keen to sell itself as a politics-free oasis in the roiling Middle East. Behind the scenes, say diplomats, Qatar is also one of several moderate Arab states trying to broker peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. "We'd love to open an embassy there," says Israeli Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Amira Oron. "But for now, it's impossible...
...short term, the financial chiefs see slow growth. They are keen to increase transparency and various form of disclosure in the financial sector, encourage appreciation of the yuan, and also encourage OPEC nations to raise production. In the long term, the G-7 economies seem more optimistic, but their statement points out that the U.S. will face further deterioration of its housing market. Asked his view of a potential U.S. recession, Paulson answered: "I've been careful to say I believe we're going to continue to grow," said Paulson. "If you're growing, you're not in a recession...
...monarchy and the army, and its princely rulers all descended from the same messianic line. Power and legitimacy radiated outward from the palaces of Kathmandu into a highly hierarchical society in the countryside, where feudal mores and caste discrimination still hold sway. Propped up first by the British, keen to have a client buffer to the north of its imperial heart, and later India, this arrangement rarely had to fear outside interference and had remained roughly intact for more than two centuries...
...France is also keen to stress the E.U.'s mission neutrality. "It is a reconstruction mission, a development mission and a humanitarian one," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said, adding that that the aim was solely to protect displaced refugees, not to help Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno. Some Chadian rebels have expressed fears that the E.U. force is meant to help prop up Deby, a longtime ally of Paris, and have even threatened to attack the mission if it interferes with their rumbling insurgency...