Word: watcher
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...even more difficult confirmation battle in 1986, when President Reagan nominated him to be Chief Justice. This time Democrats tried to prove that Rehnquist had lied during the 1971 confirmation process-not about the segregation memo but about whether he had intimidated minority voters as a Republican poll watcher during the 1960s in Arizona, where he was practicing law at the time. Rehnquist's critics produced affidavits alleging that he harassed voters at a predominantly black and Hispanic Phoenix precinct in 1964. Rehnquist issued a blanket denial that he had challenged the qualifications of minority voters in that period. Democrats...
...Soviets set up shop a week before the summit at the International Conference Center, a concrete-block house dubbed "the bunker" and home to the non-U.S. journalists. The 55-man operation included a dozen high-powered experts fluent in English and led by well-known America Watcher Georgi Arbatov, head of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada. Besides providing twice-daily briefings that began several days before the two leaders arrived in Geneva, Arbatov & Co. mingled with journalists and appeared on the three U.S. television networks and CNN to offer official wisdom on topics...
...little cash in their pockets." For as long as he can remember, Larry Moeller has associated the cranes with the coming of spring. This year the first pairs landed on Feb. 1, declaring an end to winter almost two weeks early. Ever since, the Moellers have become bird-watcher watchers. Led by a guide from the trust, cars and campers with license plates from all over the country parade daily by the farmhouse looking for cranes. At dawn and at dusk, the visitors gather in a large blind built of concrete blocks and sunk into a riverside berm like...
...attendant chaos, taken in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev. Hu's key policy initiative so far has been to strengthen, not weaken, the role of the Communist Party in Chinese life. "They believe the party is the only way that China can maintain political stability," says a China watcher in the U.S. government. "Political institutions outside the party are not to be trusted." In essence, the thinking goes, party discipline guarantees stability, which in turn breeds national strength...
...result—a normal Russia—was well worth the social price paid during the turbulent 1990s. The book is also predictably economics-centric, and if you’re not comfortable pretending to understand regressions, you may want to steer clear. But even the casual Kremlin watcher will appreciate the surprisingly accessible final chapter, which should be required reading for any class on modern Russia. Americans have been used to thinking of Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma” ever since Churchill coined the phrase; a dose...