Such electoral phenomena will be watched hawk-eyed by the strategists back in Bonn not least by Mr Kohl.

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The hawk-eyed engineers work for Bombardier Transportation, the train-building arm of Montreal's Bombardier--perhaps better known in the U.S. for the other half of its business: its regional and business jets.

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The "greedy, dry-eyed children" who hawk art from their parents' estates.

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