Word: watcher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that proposal, both Bush and Baker are mum. Bush resented having to ask Baker to bail him out one more time, and Baker was not keen to return to a job he had for four years under Ronald Reagan. "In the next two months," said a longtime Baker watcher at the campaign, "we're going to find out whether this is just another case for Jim Baker to win a verdict on or whether it's a mission...
...Princess of Wales. Last week it reached its apogee with the publication in the Sunday Times of excerpts from a forthcoming book alleging that the prince had all but deserted his wife and that the despairing princess had tried to kill herself. Diana: Her True Story, by royals watcher Andrew Morton, is big business. The Sunday Times paid $462,500 for its excerpts...
...sure. James Paul McCartney was the son of working-class Irish parents. His father was a cotton salesman and an ex-jazz trumpeter and piano man, his mother a midwife. As a child, McCartney was a Boy Scout and a bird watcher. His first real instrument was a Zenith six-string, which he played left-handed. In 1960 he was just one of four unknown teenagers performing in the squalor of Liverpool's underground Cavern club. By 1965 the Beatles had stormed America, met the Queen and been hailed as pop prophets. By 1971 -- before any of the four...
...likens it to not reimbursing drivers for the cost of changing oil in their cars while paying 90% of the price of a valve job. "The attitude was the faster it crumbles, the faster we'll get brand-new," says New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a stalwart highway watcher. Moreover, maintenance is unglamorous. "Nobody ever had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for fixing cracks," notes Moynihan...
...woman approached in tears to thank him. Old State Department ways die hard, however. For months Strauss tried to reverse the department's ban on hiring Russians for menial embassy tasks, but U.S. security officers insisted that for every two Russian workers there had to be one American "watcher." Says Strauss: "That didn't make any damn sense to me. And I didn't do it." Finally, the security people relented, and unskilled Russian workers are once again employed in the embassy -- without the minders...