Word: vigorously
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...note would have appeared next to the name Jerusalem. But it is there that Roger L. Simon's Moses Wine traverses the labyrinths of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, in Raising the Dead (Villard; 228 pages; $15.95). Wine, an American Jew who combines pratfall vulnerability with foolhardy vigor, finds himself hired by Arabs to penetrate an organization much like the militant Jewish Defense League...
Those words, to which Cardenas appended a signature every bit as baroque as the facade of the town's main church, embodied the new vigor of Mexico's leftist parties and the hunger for change that holds both right and left in its thrall. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) in the July 6 election that will choose the country's leader for the next six years, is certain to prevail. But the P.R.I.'s 59-year monopoly of political power is being challenged as never before, by Cardenas and also...
These early scenes have a vigor and pictorial sharpness that mark Boyd's best writing. After reading the description of the Todds' house, the reader feels he could find his way around it in the dark. The chapter on the school is as effective in miniature as any number of public school classics. Todd's closest friend is an acne-ridden chap named Hamish who happens to be a mathematical wizard. Hamish is the goat of some brutish schoolboy pranks, but he is too intoxicated by his own theories to care very much. His presence gives rise to some authorial...
Even so, Gorbachev's ambitious plan to infuse his economy with U.S. commercial vigor will face deep-rooted obstacles. Many Americans believe that helping strengthen the Soviet Union could damage U.S. interests. And because of Western security concerns, many U.S. commercial technologies will remain off limits to ventures with the Soviets. The Paris-based Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, for example, restricts exports of equipment and processes to the East bloc that might be used in military applications. Under COCOM rules, Western firms cannot do business with the Soviet Union in such areas as nuclear energy, high-speed computers...
...until I turned 40." In fact, being 39 was part of the problem. His failings were those of the young -- indecision during critical times, a desire to please too many people, and insecurity about his age. He did not capitalize on what could have been his biggest asset -- the vigor that stood in contrast to the sclerotic dusk of the Reagan era. He bottled up his puckish humor and came off as stiff. He eschewed well-tailored suits that could have turned him into a hip-looking heartthrob with a brain, preferring a conservative blue outfit that made him look...