Word: keens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Plymouth, the average age is only 24. Hitachi sent out a letter explaining why it wants a lower age. I have it right here. It says: "We can all accept that as we get older we become more susceptible to sickness, our reflexes become slower, our eyesight less keen and our attitudes difficult to change...
Hoffmann's lively imagination reflects a keen understanding of children and an ability to make this perception appeal to all readers Marie is his special creation and he makes us feel her pain as the clock is stabbed by the clockmaker's tools. Within this sugar-puff setting, we appreciate the somber purity and beauty that Hoffmann so prizes. Only a hopeless romantic could create a nutcracker who addresses his lady in "a little bell like voice: Dear sweet Marie. Protectress mine. Thou standest by me and I'll be thine." And within the bizarre tale of Marie's adventures...
...atmosphere in the two camps was markedly different. Once again, Reagan was tested by David Stockman, the Office of Management and Budget Director, who played Mondale with a keen oratorical resemblance to the real foe. Before the last debate, Stockman had adopted two roles, one feisty Fritz, the other calm and mild. This time Stockman synthesized the two types on what turned out to be the correct assumption that Mondale would again be firm...
...numbers. Says Terence Barker, Stone's successor as head of the Cambridge Growth Project, which has developed a model of the British economy: "He is passionately enthusiastic about economic statistics. All his professional life has been devoted to the measurement of income and wealth, and he is very keen on getting it systematized." Adds George Jaszi, director of the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis: "There is a tremendous sense of system to his work, and also tremendous elegance. He was and is a giant...
...reader cannot help but admire Talbott for his obvious concern about nuclear weapons, for his intelligence, for his grasp of the issues, and not least for his keen and conscientious attention to the importance of individuals in foreign policy negotiation. Deadly Gambits will clearly enter the history books on a par with such works as Robert I. Kennedy '40's account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and George F. Kennan's writings on containment. But this dual account of the Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) talks and Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) suffers critically from an almost exclusive focus...