Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to be stoves very soon." Others forecast that by 1995 half of all American kitchens will play home on the range with two microwaves. A Wall Street Journal survey found that 75% of Americans believe the microwave oven has made "life a lot better." Consumer demand is so keen that the food industry is racing to catch the microwave. Packaged products primarily designed to be hyperheated in these kitchen reactors have exploded into a more than $2 billion-a-year industry. To distinguish old-line cooking from microwave preparation, food-marketing experts are actually beginning to use "stovetop...
...council members were so eager to bring a reggae artist to Harvard, given that another reggae concert--by Jimmy Cliff last year--met with mixed reviews. "I think Ziggy Marley is too expensive. The council can't afford to lose that much." Battat went on to demonstrate a keen knowledge of reggae music trivia. "there are a lot of problems [with Ziggy Marley]," Battat said. "He just fired his band a couple of months ago so things are a little shaky...
...productions opened last week and once again proved Branagh an artist of unrivaled promise but unfinished growth. As a performer he was the most confident and compelling figure onstage without hogging attention. As a director he showed a keen and kindly sense of humor, recurrent sparks of visual and literary imagination and a solid gift for getting a story told. But the company he guided was uneven and, worse, unsubtle. There were almost no quiet moments of insight into the characters' souls. It would be hard to imagine better, more accessible productions for audiences seeing the plays for the first...
...Afrikaner volk to "adapt or die." In 1986 he described apartheid as "outdated and unacceptable." It was only later that year, to push for faster change, that the U.S. enacted its comprehensive sanctions bill. Those measures hit South Africa where it hurts: in the economy, and in the keen sense among whites that they are pariahs in the world's eyes and will remain so until apartheid is abolished. That may be the most telling impact of the sanctions. Today most whites are eager to end the pain and regain a place among civilized nations. Yet they are also angry...
...with the military occupation. Yazov seemed to confirm last week that Gorbachev intervened not to save Armenian lives but to prevent the Popular Front from taking control of Azerbaijan. "The army's actions," he said, "are directed at destroying the organizational structure of the Popular Front leaders who are keen on seizing power...