Word: watch
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...change argument. While the unemployment rate has dropped to 6.8%, it is well above the national average of 5.6%. Texas continues to reel from bank closings -- 93 as of last week -- and failures of savings and loan associations. Says Luan Tatum, Democratic chair in Angelina County: "I watch the TV and hear them talking about how good things are for folks, but it's not here...
...childhood friend Serena, just before Serena married a boy named Max: "It's just time to marry, that's all . . . I'm so tired of dating! I'm so tired of keeping up a good front! I want to sit on the couch with a regular, normal husband and watch TV for a thousand years...
...last week). And when these two loving enemies strike sparks, the picture comes briefly to coherent life. To a tough role, Winger brings all the gifts -- chameleon face, whiskey-and-chocolates voice, hoydenish energy, keen moral intelligence, fierce authenticity -- that make her a pleasure, an adventure, to watch. Pity they are in the service of a schizoid scenario that leaves this splendid actress in the same quandary as her screen sisters Irving % and Arquette: cross, blue, betrayed...
Israeli defense officials, however, are divided over timing. Those who want to launch the satellite as soon as possible argue that in the wake of the Iran-Iraq cease-fire and recent missile purchases by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Jerusalem needs to watch its Arab neighbors more closely. Those who prefer to wait argue that a launch now would only push Arab countries into beseeching Moscow for satellites of their own, thus fueling the region's arms race and irritating the Soviet Union at a time when Jerusalem is trying to improve relations with Moscow. The ten members of Israel...
Last May, acting under pressure from hard-liners in the military who resented Junejo's attempts to increase civilian control, Zia dissolved the government. His sudden death thus leaves Pakistan with neither a strong military leader nor a functioning civilian government. For the future, the man to watch is General Mirza Aslam Baig, 57, whom Ishaq Khan appointed to be the new army chief of staff, Pakistan's most powerful military post. A quiet man with an aloof manner, Baig is described by those who know him as a professional soldier with no political ambitions. Baig attended the tank trials...