Word: keens
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...team then traveled to Las Vegas at the beginning of December for the Cliff-Keen Invitational, where it faced some of the best wrestling programs in the nation. The tournament was highlighted by Volpe's outstanding wrestling and his strong seventh-place finish...
...compromise rather than simply pretending it wasn't happening. He had rejected terrorism on principle: his soldiers were always under orders to avoid attacking civilians, even when their unarmed supporters on the ground were being massacred by the apartheid regime. And the South African leader also always displayed a keen understanding of his adversary's motivations and concerns, which gave him the ability both to read their tactics and articulate positions that could assuage their fears...
This was not the road McMullen intended to travel. Growing up, he wanted to be an artist or a rock star. While still harboring the musician's dream, he started to work for a company making Halloween masks. A keen sculptor, he began to shape life-size figures out of silicone. "Most sculpture is like 500 pounds of rock. Once you get it, there isn't much you can do with it," he says, squinting through his constant companion cloud of cigarette smoke. "I wanted to make sculpture that could interact with people." And, as he discovered, people wanted...
...rare visits out of the palatial family compound in Pyongyang were in tinted-window limousines. But this Kim, unlike his father, has traveled abroad frequently and was educated in Switzerland. He is believed to have worked for North Korea's military intelligence agency and is thought to have a keen interest in computers. North Koreans in Japan who support the Kim regime say they were told last month during a visit to Pyongyang that Kim Jong Nam has in fact been designated the Dear Leader's successor. That is no guarantee he will inherit the leadership, however. It took three...
...Though these losses have been sad for us actual students, extensive market research with Yuppie focus groups revealed that Yuppies just didn’t like these kinds of businesses—even for a college nostalgia theme park, they were too genuine. Park management for Yuppie FantasyLand, always keen on remaining close to their customers, decided that these businesses just...