Word: keens
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...poor farming family's dreams: $2,000 now and more to follow when Pim sent money home from Thailand. Her mother told her she would be working as a mae bai, a maid. Pim, who had no reason to doubt her, found herself being packed off. The trader, keen to make a trip so far up-country pay, had hired a minivan: Pim describes how her first day in captivity was spent driving from village to village as the man picked up a total of 12 girls. Bribing his way past the many Burmese road checkpoints and buying forged visitor...
...ingredients of a made-for-TV drama. The star is an aging German tycoon, known for his obsessive secrecy, unbridled ambition and friends in high places - one of whom even has a shot at becoming Chancellor. Using a keen understanding of the public taste and an enormous appetite for risk taking, our hero builds a multibillion-dollar media empire, comprising TV stations, newspapers and rights to a library of cinema classics and sports events...
...Other European leagues aren't as keen as England on French coaches, but the Gallic touch is finding takers farther afield. Claude Le Roy, who coached Cameroon's 1998 World Cup side, has signed on at Shanghai's Cosco, while Manuel Amoros, who collected 82 caps with les Bleus, has taken the helm at the Tunisian club Sfax. If the foursome at the World Cup draw good performances from their teams, the football factory may find orders for its by-products mirroring the demand for its main export...
...Each new development had the Democrats rubbing their hands together in anticipation. For months the opposition party had had almost nothing to say, partly because the nation was at war and partly because it was keen to align itself with a popular President. With nothing much to argue about, the Democrats had nothing with which to distinguish themselves. Worst of all, no one in the country was willing to blame the state of the economy on anyone other than Osama bin Laden. "You can only do what you can do based on the cards you have to play," said Senator...
...After a year in office, one thing is clear about Bush's political operatives: when they make a mistake, they fix it fast. When their conservative instincts lead them down a path that much of the country isn't keen on, they are awfully good at changing the subject while holding to their original course. Which is why Bush, early last week, said his mother-in-law was one of the little people who got screwed by the corporate giant. On a trip to a West Virginia machinery shop Tuesday, Bush told workers that Jenna Welch, 82, had lost almost...