Word: keenness
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...Keen sportsman Guido, 44, is shaking and baking as he moves to expand Barilla, his family's tightly held 125-year-old company. Last month the father of five and former philosophy student negotiated a takeover of the German baker Kamps. Barilla, based in Parma, Italy, is the world's largest pasta maker, selling more than 30 varieties in 100 countries, including the U.S. The acquisition of Kamps gives Barilla broader distribution channels throughout Europe...
...electoral party. The question now is how the fractious collection of mostly neophyte politicians on his ticket will handle that bitter victory without him to lead them. The challenge is no less daunting for the established parties, confronted by an inchoate taste for change among an electorate keen to reject the politics of accommodation...
...then autism research took a badly wrong turn. Asperger's keen insights languished in Europe's postwar turmoil, and Kanner's were overrun by the Freudian juggernaut. Children were not born autistic, experts insisted, but became that way because their parents, especially mothers, were cold and unnurturing...
...other side, he's Dwayne Johnson, an amiable and quietly articulate young man with a chiseled physique. A mensch with muscles. His expression is warm, his intelligence keen. He shakes hands and signs autographs and poses for snapshots with wide-eyed kids, smiling and exuding the most perfectly innate grace and noblesse oblige you could ever want in a chair-wielding wrestler turned sword-swinging movie star...
...straddle the San Andreas Fault line in 1989. It may seem like I have a foot firmly on both sides on the divide, but I feel liable to tumble into the crevasse below at any moment. Those who don’t know me are still keen to pigeonhole me as “that English kid,” asking tediously banal questions—just to set the record straight, no I do not know your friend Justin who comes from Sussex and went to the Northwestern summer school program with you—and insisting that...