Word: keenness
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...Colombo think tank, reckons that, in Sri Lankan terms, both sides are showing restraint-neither has launched all-out assaults. "The government knows the only way to stop the L.T.T.E. from killing more soldiers is to meet them at the negotiating table," says Perera. The Tigers, he adds, are keen to shore up their battered reputation with the international community, which can stymie fund raising among the Tamil diaspora and stop rebel sympathizers from traveling. Last Friday government spokesman Rambukwella told TIME that Norway, which has been acting as mediator, has scheduled fresh talks between Colombo and the L.T.T.E...
...coming years, Shu, like so many other Americans of Chinese descent, watched the economic rise of China with keen interest. He had been born in Hong Kong but left for suburban New York City with his parents when he was just a toddler, making him, as he puts it, "thoroughly Americanized-more Woody Allen than anything else." The stint with Goldman in Hong Kong had rekindled his interest in China, however, and though his career brought him back to the U.S. in the mid-1990s, the lure of what was happening on the mainland proved irresistible. Two years...
...Which means this Bush White House, which started out keen to strike a very different tone from the father's, may wind up after eight years looking like its shadow...
...Pentagon wasn't keen about your office when Congress created it. Has that changed? It is by definition a joint exercise. I think it works well. I don't see how the relationship could be better, and I think the division of labor is very clearly understood...
...also noted that meeting applicants for the Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships committee, which he has helped lead for 25 years, “has kept me in contact with current students and given me a keen awareness of life at Harvard College...