Word: stints
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stadium, completed just as Bush was launching his gubernatorial run, gave a lift to the team and Bush too. When he left in 1994, his $606,000 investment paid him almost $15 million. The Rangers' success provided a launching pad for his campaign. Perhaps, too, his stint also taught him a lesson about politics. In his office is a novelty baseball inscribed simply: "Sometimes you just have to play hardball...
...sought a second opinion from Chris Komisarjevsky, who claims to enjoy traveling with his six children, ages 6 to 12. A stint as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam prepared him for this challenge: "You learn to keep your cool." But Komisarjevsky, co-author with his wife Reina of Peanut Butter and Jelly Management (Amacom; $17), agreed with Gump. Says Chris: "Remember it's a vacation for the kids. That's different from a vacation for adults without children--which, of course, you should also take." That I knew already...
...person Brown hardly seems the type to raise hell. Gracious, soft spoken and unassuming, he is above all steadfastly committed to his work. He didn't begin writing until he turned 29. At the time, he was working as a fireman, having joined the department after a stint in the Marines. "I had a good job," he says. "I just didn't want to do it for 30 years. I got to where the only thing I wanted was to write...
...Graham's newest movie makes clever use of its title-Graham is both extremely attached to her husband and does a short stint in an insane asylum. She plays Joline, a New York club owner with a heart of gold. Joline leads a blessed life (as if you didn't already know this) and she is known as a woman who never ever goes back on her word. When Joline's husband Carl (Luke Wilson), a photojournalist whose employer is limiting him to culinary photography, leaves her with the only clue to his whereabouts-a postcard with a cactus...
...really excited," beams Harvard Coach Joe Walsh, who coached Forst and Hill at different points in his successful five-year stint with the Crimson. "I've got close friends in professional baseball who have worn the Harvard uniform. It's a great tribute, both to the program and the school...