Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What Pete didn't tell me that first day is that writing sports at Harvard is a nightmare on par with anything the Apostles could dream up in the Book of Revelations. Writers spend the majority of their waking hours running after athletes who are not always keen on sharing experiences and composing articles for a student body which is at best uninterested. (Anybody who is that interested in Harvard sports is already working here.) I've noticed that most Harvard students take their sports news in 40-point Utopia; any headline smaller than that is generally forgotten within...
Stone's colleagues say he brings keen business instincts and a sharp analytical mind to Corporation discussions...
...lieutenant, "It feels good out there." This campaign is different from his previous outings. Discipline is now a more regular companion. Prior to his announcement swing in April, Dole spent some time at his Washington headquarters delivering his stump speech to an empty TV studio. He wasn't keen about the idea-and he didn't deliver it very well. But his aides first tested the speech's broad themes with a focus group of Republican men and women in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Next they showed the tape to a "dial group'' of 30 Republicans -- some committed to Dole, some...
...system to determine if the Americans were drawing up plans for a surprise nuclear strike. One of Varenik's tasks was to recruit agents near NATO airfields who could report if the number of flights increased suddenly. Varenik also told the CIA about the KGB's areas of keen interest--NATO weaponry, especially aircraft, for example, and computers and data handling...
...READ WITH INTEREST IAN BURUMA'S article, "Lost Without a Faith,'' about how the Japanese are looking for new gods [Cover, April 3]. Buruma has keen insight into the Japanese mentality. I don't agree, however, with his opinion that Soka Gakkai members worship Daisaku Ikeda, honorary president of the group, as a monarch. The Soka Gakkai is a grass-roots Buddhist organization whose goal is the establishment of world peace. Since it stands on the side of the common people, it has always been criticized and persecuted by the authorities. Its first president, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, a renowned educator, died...