Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called that Sunday to back out. If not you, Reed asked, then who? Again Bennett told him, "You oughta look at Jack." More and more, that was the thought in Dole's mind as well. His other potential choices were not panning out. For a while he had been keen to reach back to the Bush years for former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, but the onetime Wyoming Congressman, who has had a coronary bypass, wanted to remain in retirement. Michigan Governor John Engler got on Dole's bad side when he urged Newt Gingrich to shut down the Federal Government...
...China," FlorCruz says. "It is a way of showing its importance in the global diplomatic community, and a way of saying China cannot be ignored or excluded. The public nature of China's acceptance is a sign that the Chinese are quite eager to play such a role and keen to make diplomatic points for doing so." FlorCruz says the United States has been tacitly encouraging China's new role, and notes that Jiang's announcement closely follows a visit to China by U.S. National Security Adviser Anthony Lake. North Korea still has to be persuaded to come...
...lives than at any time in America's history. Ethnic and racial tensions are also rising. Internationally, for the first time in this decade, the United States is confronted with the prospect of a possible menace from the East. In such an unpredictable world, an astute president with a keen sense of the urgency of the moment and with a steady hand is needed more than ever. By this, I mean a president who has clear and spelled-out convictions, one who has a sense of direction and purpose. We need a president with a mission, who is not afraid...
...long run, it may be that most secular of forces--economics--that pushes doctors to become more sensitive to the spiritual needs of their patients. Increasingly, American medicine is a business, run by large hmos and managed-care groups with a keen eye on the bottom line. Medical businessmen are more likely than are scientifically trained doctors to view prayer and spirituality as low-cost treatments that clients say they want. "The combination of these forces--consumer demand and the economic collapse of medicine--are very powerful influences that are making medicine suddenly open to this direction," observes Andrew Weil...
...then Calvin Klein, more than any other major designer, has maintained a keen sense of mass-cultural tastes. He has kept his position as a beloved clothier of urbane working women, all the while forging a lucrative star status at the mall with his CK, fragrance and underwear divisions. With the launch of his jeans line in 1978, he became one of the first designers to put Vogue-world cachet within reach of ordinary consumers. In the process he helped strip fashion of its elitism; now countless designers offer lower-end lines...