Word: keens
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...Chun had abruptly decreed an end to debate on constitutional reform until after next year's Summer Olympics in Seoul. That move was effusively endorsed by Roh, a classmate of Chun's at South Korea's military academy and a fellow ex- army general. Paying tribute to Chun's "keen perception of history," Roh on June 10 was formally chosen as the Democratic Justice Party's candidate for President in a national election set for later this year. It was Roh's nomination ceremony, which many South Koreans viewed as an arrogant attempt to push a Chun crony into...
...appear to be about me," he disclaims at one point about his narrative, but much of it is. Kenneth too has a grievance. The woman with whom he had a daughter refused to marry him and moved to Seattle, where she now consorts with a burly ski instructor. "Keen to get to the bottom of things," as always, Kenneth ransacks his store of accumulated wisdom in an attempt to explain how he and his uncle have both wound up "knee-deep in the garbage of 'personal life...
Toward the end of his distinguished if always faintly controversial career, however, Casey's reputation for keen intellect seemed at odds with his testimony before members of Congress last Dec. 10. To pointed inquiries on Iranscam, he repeatedly answered, "I don't know." The Senate Intelligence Committee had planned to quiz him on Dec. 16, but he suffered a seizure the day before and then underwent surgery for a cancerous tumor in his brain. He never recovered, and spent his last months in and out of hospitals...
...builders face keen competition from Europe' s Airbus. -- New hope for computer makers. -- How the FDIC closes a bank...
...prospect of mechanically consulting their punishment tables like an abacus leaves most judges dismayed. "I know of nobody who's keen to enforce this approach," says U.S. District Court Judge Laughlin Waters of Los Angeles. "Most judges don't want sentencing guidelines, period," admits Chairman William Wilkins of South Carolina, a federal appeals judge. But, he adds, "we all recognize we need a system where there is certainty and fairness. Without guidelines that is impossible." The absence of outright enthusiasm from any quarter for the commission's approach may be inevitable. As Stanford Criminal Law Professor John Kaplan says...