Word: watcher
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...main hospital in northern Mitrovica, Marijan Ilincic, a 51-year-old bridge watcher and former judo instructor, denies this. He called his group a "civic organization" formed after the war when Yugoslav troops withdrew. "We decided we could either run to Serbia or stay and defend ourselves," he says. "We decided to stay. We know the Albanians. They are prone to terrorism. We have to protect ourselves." Down the corridor, in an office that boasts one of the biggest security details in the city, hospital director Milan Ivanovic, a lung specialist who is also one of the city's most...
...members began calling for Nasser's head, he had few people whose support he could count on. "He was so dictatorial and arrogant, the dealers hated him, the employees didn't have any patience for him and after awhile, even the analysts turned against him," says one longtime Ford watcher...
...Some fodder for the advanced Fed-watcher: Wednesday brings speeches on lending from Fed Governor Edward Gramlich and Dallas Fed President Robert McTeer, and Thursday we get the minutes from that mysterious mixed-messages Fed meeting in June. Will the minutes explain why the Fed talked 50 points but only walked 25? Would it really change anything, at this point, if they did? Probably not - but it?ll be fun to pretend. Also Thursday: The Philly Fed issues its quarterly survey of professional forecasters. Interesting if your belief in collective economic sooth-saying hasn?t been completely shattered...
...keep the hard-edged observations in her performances distanced by satire. But a sharp viewer can find them. Even in Legally Blonde, which spins her screen character so genially, a slight chill invades the watcher--all that shrewdness, all that drive devoted to winning not particularly well-considered gains...
Sibley's book will introduce more people to birds; more bird watchers will lead to more individual initiative, and the birds will be the beneficiaries. ANDY THOMPSON, PUBLISHER Bird Watcher's Digest Marietta, Ohio...