Word: watcher
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...their prey unnoticed before pouncing. Females and males are equally predatory. Yosemite wildlife-control officer Kate McCurdy recalls a Yosemite lion who sat near tents in 1994, intently watching shadows cast by people partying inside. Cougars tend to pick solitary prey; thus the lone jogger and the occasional bird watcher are in greater danger. But when lions do decide to target a group, they go after the smaller elements in the pack--children...
...baritone, Smith has drawn obvious comparisons to Billy Eckstine and Johnny Hartman. But whereas those singers can sometimes sound mesmerized by the sheer resonance of their own vocal cords, Smith has a more nimble sense of phrasing--he's rich yet light, the flourless chocolate cake of a Weight Watcher's dream. On the Art Blakey tune Moanin' he lets loose with a paradoxically graceful abandon that would make a silky shouter like Joe Williams proud...
...another Buffett watcher, Stephen Leeb, editor of the newsletter Personal Finance, notes that Buffett may feel vulnerable. The stock market has roared ahead in the past three years on the power of a "perfect-world" economy, one where inflation was low but earnings were robust. Buffett's stocks, more than most, have been big winners. Coca-Cola, his largest holding, has shown an average annual gain of 36.2% since the end of 1994, vs. 30.6% for the Standard & Poor's 500. Coke now trades at about $67 a share, more than 40 times last year's earnings and close...
...afford not to go: this economy pries open the gap in prospects for those with a college degree and those without. The average CEO of a large company now earns 200 times more than the average worker, up from a 40-fold difference in the 1970s, according to trend watcher and author Gerald Celente. And for those who drop out, the options for unskilled workers keep shrinking, as does the safety net beneath them if they fall out of the economy altogether...
...Finger or not, Clinton may have had the upper hand all along. TIME's Justice-watcher Elaine Shannon says that Republicans' threats sound hollow. "There was some talk that the committee would retaliate by holding up some judicial appointments," she says ? but as the GOP remembers all too well, shut-down politics is a dangerous game. "Who does that hurt more?" asks Shannon. "The side that provoked it, or the side that causes the gridlock? It's generally the latter...