Word: keens
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...interview with TIME last week, Bremer, dressed in an ensemble befitting a Washington power broker in a war zone--pinstripe suit, red tie, white pocket square, combat boots--was keen to emphasize the coalition's successes but seemed all too aware of growing Iraqi impatience. "Saddam took 35 years to run the place down, and it's not going to take 35 days to fix it. People need to be patient. And I know that's hard when the temperature's 124 and the electricity goes off. But that's the message, and that's the only message there...
...been proven to reach out very effectively to all student constituencies,” said Buell. “He’s keen to teach and he’s had great success teaching, from freshmen to a graduate school level,” he said...
...attacking non-U.S. coalition forces, the insurgents may also be trying to discourage others from entering Iraq. India, for example, has been sharply divided on whether to send troops: While some in the government are keen to ingratiate New Delhi with the U.S. by going in, others warn that it's a no-win commitment that will imperil India's standing in the Arab world...
...meets a vacationing Swede who has had a dead baby shoved in his face by an Indian beggar. "We were all horrified and, I think, more than a little envious," he writes. "All visitors to the developing world, if they are honest, will confess that they are actually quite keen on seeing a bit of squalor." And readers, if they are honest, will confess that they are more interested in this traveler's disintegration than in his resurrection...
...Frank Gehry and completed in 1997, it was also the world's first piece of blockbuster museum architecture since Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic 1959 Guggenheim building in New York. It showed that Krens could leverage the Guggenheim name and its collection while working with a local government keen to advance its economic and political interests. According to Bilbao authorities, the museum received 1.3 million visitors in its first year, and the city recouped more than three times its $100 million original investment from the tourist revenues generated by the Guggenheim. That spectacular success has encouraged other governments to court...