Word: keens
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...moved in and out of his boyhood, heroes on that far-off Washington stage that beckoned him. The legendary Congressman Carl Vinson was Nunn's great-uncle. Along with a taste for basketball and politics, Nunn absorbed dignity, calm and concern, and always, from the frequent family tribunes, a "keen sense of America...
...summit that nobody wants much except the Americans. Palestinians, in particular, gripe that Rice is dragging them to it. They say Rice only wants to show Arab moderates-whom the U.S. needs to help repair the chaos in Iraq-that the Bush Administration is keen to make headway on the Israeli-Palestinian impasse. U.S. officials told Abbas's team that it is unlikely President George W. Bush would attend the summit himself. At the summit, scheduled for next month in an as yet undisclosed location, Rice would represent the U.S. side, and the two other participants would be Israeli Prime...
...Pyongyang with the border to the South. But this is North Korea, where even the easiest task is complicated by penury-the camera he is given has a dead battery-and fraught with politics. Returning to the capital, O is unexpectedly grilled by two senior intelligence officials with a keen interest in the car he didn't photograph. Becoming embroiled with the secret services is a dangerous proposition for any North Korean, even a policeman, so O is sent away from the capital by his long-suffering boss, Chief Inspector Pak, until the heat is off. As in all good...
...journalist who is also a keen club player, the chance to hit balls with a four-time majors winner is too good to miss. Dressed in traditional white, Cooper takes his place on one side of a friend's court in the middle of a Brisbane scorcher. Any fears for the legend's health evaporate after 10 minutes' rallying, when the younger man is drenched in perspiration while Cooper might have been playing checkers in the shade. "You hit a nice ball," he flatters. "You play the modern way-topspin forehand and double-handed backhand." Cooper's style...
...businesses keen to brandish their green credentials, this uncertainty is troublesome. In October, Britain's Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint against Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) after it was unable to prove its claim to absorb through tree planting the 140,000 tons of CO2 produced each year by customers. An SSE spokesman admits that scientific uncertainty made it impossible to verify that the 150,000 trees it had planted in the U.K., Brazil and Guatemala covered its assertion...