Word: keens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dowling (H) d. Keen Butcher...
Harvard freshman Joe Dowling and Keen Butcher of Princeton were teammates at Choate last year. Butcher played number one. "Keen was much better than I was," said Dowling...
Mondale did something else right: he gathered a team of seasoned pros, who seem unlikely to fold if things get tough. Acting Campaign Chairman Johnson, 40, a former aide to Mondale in the Senate and vice presidency, is cerebral, controlled and known for his keen political instincts. Campaign Manager Robert Beckel, 36, beefy and boisterous, handles the nitty-gritty details of daily tactics. Senior Political Adviser John Reilly, 55, came out of Jack and Robert Kennedy campaigns and has helped corral endorsements. Campaign Treasurer Michael Herman. 44, talkative, assertive and warm, has a firm grip on cash-flow problems...
This last linkup boosted Smith's already high standing in Japan. "Many, many Japanese auto tycoons are trying to emulate Smith-san," says Nobuyoshi Yoshida, Japan's leading automotive journalist, who praises Smith for his flexibility, his keen accountant's eye and his pragmatic deal-making ability. Adds Yoshida: "Japanese businessmen would feel guilty doing business with such rivals as Nissan and Toyota at the same time...
...what are known to man. It may, perhaps, be possible to automate individuals but it is difficult to see how this can be done to mankind. Mankind ceaselessly regenerates itself as children come into the world, fresh, ignorant of what has preceded them and what is expected of them, keen to observe, and averse to acting as they are told. To create a uniform world, one would have to devise a way of making acquired characteristics inheritable: something that the charlatan biologist. Trofin Lysenko, promised Stalin, who desperately desired such power...