Word: patronizers
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Hardly surprising, since the Bosnian Serbs and their reluctant patron in Belgrade, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, are masters at exploiting great power differences. The Russians tend to favor the Serbs, their historic allies; the Americans tend to favor the Muslims, who they feel are the clear victims; and the French are masterfully temporizing, which infuriates the Russians and the Americans. "I think there's a willingness to declare the Contact Group dead, but the alternative is so bleak that no one wants to face it," says a U.S. official...
Fernald said that he had been in the process ofbringing a chair into one of the rows of stacks sothat he could sit down and browse, when anotherPusey patron a few shelves down pressed the buttonactivating her stack...
...think big and spend bigger; they are also eager to itemize their profligacy. No Broadway musical has cost as much as $20 million, and if it did, no Broadway producer would say so. But Vegas is a place where gamblers brag about their winnings, and their losings. Liberace--the patron saint of Gaud Almighty--used to motor onstage in his Rolls-Royce and declare that the Riviera Hotel was paying him $50,000 a week; he was like a child showing his mother a report card full of A's. Same with the Vegas master builders...
...these people went to a course and wereinstructed on how to check identifications," saidBreen. "One of the ID's did not match the[patron's] face and the other was a reserve IDwhich was...torn...
...medals are very popular," explains the red-haired cashier, who asked not to be identified. "People buy them and have them blessed by a priest. There's real special meaning to them. The most popular is the miraculous medal and St. Christopher (the patron saint of travelers...