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...Contestant grabs bar. Contestant lifts bar. Contestant makes a happy grimace and drops bar. Contestant leaves stage. But it's not without drama, as the women try to psych each other out backstage by making their next lift heavier and heavier. Sort of like muscle poker. Except everybody's bluff is eventually called...
...church mouse" on the topic, says analyst John Fox of the Washington-based Open Society Institute. Fox says the West has made a critical mistake by letting Milosevic take the offensive. The current stance--keeping Belgrade guessing with a measured ambiguity--carries the risk that he may call the bluff...
...route to Manhattan from a place in the Andean clouds, has other priorities. The "mountain" in question is a 20-ft.-high, graffitied roadside outcropping identical to dozens of others between Newark Airport and the Lincoln Tunnel. The van's Anglo contingent is fairly sure that the rocky bluff has no name. Don Domingo consults perplexedly with his companions Don Martin, Don Nicolas, Don Andres, Don Hilario, Don Ascencio and Don Juan Gabriel. This place is stranger than they had imagined...
...they account for nearly half. "The industry was claiming it didn't have the technology to boost fuel economy," says Jason Mark, a transportation expert with the Union of Concerned Scientists. "What is revolutionary in Ford's and GM's announcements is that they are calling their own bluff...
...Montenegro's pro-Western leadership now faces an acute dilemma that could have global consequences: It either backs away from its path of confrontation with Belgrade, or presses forward for full independence. Milosevic has called the bluff of Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic, who has been moving steadily in the direction of seceding. Belgrade has now signaled clearly that it's willing to risk violent confrontation to keep its last non-Serb republic. The situation is fraught: Montenegro provides Yugoslavia's only access to the sea; in addition, some 30 percent of Montenegro's population remain loyal to Milosevic...