Word: watching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...duke, an avid golfer, is in town to watch the Ryder Cup golf tournament, which began yesterday at the Country Club in Brookline. Staying at the Four Seasons in Boston, the Prince also managed a visit to Boston University earlier this week...
...They are an attractive tool for the inexpensive spreading of death," explains William M. Arkin, the chief military consultant to Human Rights Watch, which issued a report about the danger of duds titled "Ticking Time Bombs." The report states that the actual dud rate, as measured in the Gulf War, was close to a quarter of the bomblets, over four times the official Air Force estimate. Arkin said duds result from a variety of reasons and that their fuse work is often shoddy. He added that the cluster bombs have "Gameboy-like electronics," in an effort to create widescale destruction...
...Watch for emerging support groups for working parents trying to deal with the sudden absence of guilt in their lives. According to Ellen Galinsky?s new book, "Ask the Children: What America?s Children Really Think About Working Parents," the majority of kids in dual-income households feel they spend enough time with their parents. Only 10 percent of the 1,000 children Galinsky interviewed wish they could spend more time with their moms, while 16 percent want more of their dads? time. Many parents who were interviewed predicted their kids would want them to stop working, while in fact...
Even so, Ma urges Taiwan to "resist this kind of harassment," adding that reform will come as the Chinese watch Taiwan conduct free elections...
MUTUAL-FUND VOYEURISM Want to see your money manager in action? Trading activity at OpenFund can be viewed in real-time updates on its Meta-Market.com site. You can even watch the trading floor through a Web camera. The start-up also features online discussions with industry gurus. Coming soon: Stock-Jungle.com's Community Intelligence Fund. This planned mutual fund will choose its holdings on the basis of investors' suggestions, as culled by the fund's managers. SEC approval is pending...