Word: technician
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...Darwinian struggle has gripped girls' sports with a special intensity. Some college recruiters are bypassing high schools and selecting players directly from the club teams. And some high school recruiters are moving even earlier. Charles Morris, 42, of Berkeley, Calif., a technician for Bay Area Rapid Transit, shakes his head as he recalls the coach who, after watching his daughter play basketball, asked what high school she plans to attend. To be sure, the girl, Casey, is a standout player. But she's eight years...
Reilly grew up visiting an Irish grandfather who kept him riveted with suspenseful tales. But Reilly's gift, colleagues say, has as much to do with his skill as a technician as it does with his being a good raconteur. "Jimmy has perfected the art of not being predictable," says Lisa Hesser, the show's executive producer. "Most soap opera viewers know they have to watch on Fridays and Mondays, but Jim can have a blockbuster event on a Tuesday." If that event should involve a reincarnated Dodi, well then, all the better...
...ordinary Serbs to demonstrate against Milosevic in the wake of the Kosovo debacle. On Monday 20,000 people ? almost one third of the town?s population ? took to the streets of Leskovac in response to a call sneaked into a basketball half-time show by a local TV technician. But even widespread grassroots anger may not be enough to bring down the indicted war criminal. "Milosevic won?t go simply because tens or even hundreds of thousands of people are out in the streets demanding his resignation," says Anastasijevic. "He?s been through that before and survived because the protest...
...still a student, he fell in love with and married Mirjana Markovic, daughter of a distinguished partisan and party family, and together they climbed her connections up through party ranks. Educated in the law, he filled high posts at Tehnogas and Beobank, but he was not really a lawyer, technician or banker. He was a party "fixer." By 1984 he was fixing his way through the national party, and by 1987, he led Serbia's Communist Party...
...Raytheon technician Percy Spencer accidentally discovers microwave cooking when microwave signals melt a candy bar in his pocket...