Yet even close observers of that election may find themselves taken aback that with today's announcement bus fares will hit the £1 mark as early as January, before the work has even begun in earnest on the new "Routemaster".
A public offering would also expose aspects of Blackstone's business that even close observers could only guess at, such as its ownership structure, its partners' equity shares, its compensation, and, most important, the exorbitant profits that Blackstone was earning, and, by extrapolation, the exorbitant profits of other private-equity and alternative-asset-management firms.
She was not one of the frontrunners, and though she was one of a small group of women elected to the Council of Bishops a few years previously, even close observers of the Church of England had to scuttle off to Google when her name was announced.
One clip showed that this time, the activists got even closer to the observers who might protect them from deadly fire.
They were described as having concealed their missions from even their closest observers.
But its interrogations function is less well known, even to close observers of Chicago police.
But given that Mr. Greenspan's notoriously opaque statements as Federal Reserve chairman sometimes confused even the closest observers of monetary policy, it remains to be seen whether he can write a book that appeals to a large general-interest audience.
In Estudiantes' case it seems the main thing that happened was the arrival of Verón – he has become involved in financing some of the facilities and infrastructure for the academy, has a say in the squad and even, as close observers will have noted, asks for changes from the pitch.
Even for close observers in the United States, these questions are not easy to answer.
I wonder how many of the photographers and other observers who were even closer to the blasts have lost their lives to cancer.
