Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shaw's view of Moscow includes a watch on his neighbor Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev, who has an apartment a block away in the Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Almost every day for the past 1 8 months, Shaw and Brezhnev have passed briefly on their block - Shaw walking to the TIME bureau, Brezhnev speeding to work in his black limousine...
...shows and soap operas. Audiences have taken the advice of the Miami Herald, which recently admonished its readers: "This isn't the monotony you think it is. There is real excitement and drama in this continuing investigation. Lay that telephone down, pour yourself a cup of coffee and watch the real Secret Storm." Network officials believe that that storm is now attracting a steadily growing audience as the drama heightens, beginning with last week's appearance...
...foreigners have lately been scurrying in and out of the West African republic of Mauritania, at the western end of the Sahara -hiring the few available trucks, renting plots of land and even booking rooms in an old French Foreign Legion post. Told that the strangers are there to watch the moon black out the sun, some believers in the oasis town of Chinguetti-the seventh holiest city of Islam-are incredulous. "How can you tell the sun will darken?" a herdsman asks. "Only God can know that...
...keep the Government from delving too far into the private lives of citizens, Harvard Law Professor Arthur R. Miller advocates a separate agency to police the FBI, the CIA and other federal departments that compile data on individuals. The "Big Brother to watch Big Brother," as Miller calls it, would be controlled by Congress, as the General Accounting Office is, and would have a few citizens as members...
...donor to Harvard and saw that they provided good stewardship and protection for my gift, I might do something more for them. But if I were to give them something in good faith only to have them dispose of it, I would question giving them the next Spiro Agnew watch...