Word: gigged
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Still, it's intriguing how many opportunities they are finding to be noticed together. Their co-hosting gig at the movie premiere came at the end of a day they had begun together at a news conference. Last week found McCain and Clinton together again as part of a congressional delegation surveying melting glaciers in Alaska. And there was that brow-raising joint appearance from Baghdad on Meet the Press last winter, in which each declared that the other would make a good President...
...that sounds like a perfect retirement gig, caretakers are quick to point out that it's not all bucolic bliss. "Some property owners want servants, not caretakers," says Keith Cliver, 53, who with his wife Emily Moddelmog, 37, currently caretakes at the Oasis, a bird sanctuary in a former pecan orchard in Benson, Ariz. "We worked at an estate in Las Vegas where the owner eventually got rid of all the help and wanted the two of us to do everything 24/7." They quit shortly thereafter...
...That evening?s gig was played to an even smaller house at the no-less-fine Odyssey Bookstore in South Hadley, Mass. There had indeed been a couple of Yanks fans among the Vermonters, but as I was now gravitating closer to the Hub I was entering the realm inhabited exclusively by devotees of the scarlet hose. I read about the seventh game of last year?s ALCS, then opened it up for discussion, which was almost exclusively about the afternoon?s announcement: Schilling was headed for the bullpen, probably as the closer...
...Yahoo!'s headquarters in Silicon Valley. Just two days later, the wealthy Republican--who campaigned on his self-proclaimed independence from special interests, and forgoes his $175,000 state salary--was trying hard to prove it after the Sacramento Bee reported that he had accepted a mondo free-lance gig from a muscle-magazine publisher. According to documents filed with the SEC, just days before taking office in 2003, Schwarzenegger signed a five-year consulting deal, worth at least $1 million annually, with a subsidiary of American Media Inc., publisher of Muscle & Fitness and Flex. His pay was pegged...
Lowe said the band did the gig for exposure—and considered their two-night stint a success...