Word: keening
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...just that of a black man in a white world, but of a man coming out of the manufacturing environment and entering the world of finance and Wall Street,” Candee said. “His transformation was one of a guy who was keen to learn about the world in which he worked...
...Like those troubled nations, Cambodia has been ravaged by civil strife. The poisonous aftermath still lingers in mine-strewn soil, where the nation's farmers scrape a living. One of the consequences is that there's no lack of amputees keen to strap on an artificial limb and hit a ball over a net. Since 2002, a wet-season disabled volleyball league has nurtured a squad of high-flying semipro athletes who came fourth at the 2005 World Cup in Canada and are gunning for gold on home soil. Christian Zepp, 26, the team's German coach who arrived...
...incompatible relationships and eventually, divorce. The worst cases, however, are those "where NRI men come to India seeking either huge dowries or 'holiday wives,'" says Singh. "If they abandon their brides and return to their adoptive countries, the brides and their families, living in a culture of patriarchy and keen to preserve their honor, often do not approach the authorities. And even if they do, there are limited legal options before them...
...party has also proposed banning Muslims from erecting minarets, which Schlüer says is "a political symbol." More than 50,000 people have already signed that petition. And Schlüer says the party is keen to abolish a federal law banning racial incitement and discrimination, and to ban Muslim girls from wearing headscarves in public schools. "In school we want to see their faces," Schlüer says, adding: "And it is part of our constitution that everybody is equal...
...whether it’s actually the same cloth that Larry wore, but it’s meant to emulate the garb of a Puritan minister... It’s completely unlike any other University president’s.” Those Puritans were always known for their keen fashion sense...