Word: gigged
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...years ago, Katherine Harris was an obscure Sarasota, Fla., socialite, a Harvard-educated heiress juggling a real estate job, arts charities and a short-lived nightclub gig doing the chicken dance and exhorting the audience to join in. She was also, say friends, bored silly...
...chance to rest." A native of the New Jersey suburbs who majored in social studies at Wesleyan University, he was inspired by his father, a florist who "worked seven days a week until I was 15." This is O'Shea's first gig as a businessman; he still speaks like the cautious, probing technology journalist he once was. Maybe that's the key to winning investors: talk softly and carry a big idea. Or maybe it's just old-economy work ethic...
...DOBBS Boldly goes where no anchor-man has gone, ditching CNN's Moneyline last year to launch geeky Space.com One small step, and he falls off the radar. OLD TV GIG: 265,000 viewers a day NEW SITE: 502,000 visitors a month...
...costs, mastering and duplication fees, graphic design, photography, art work, promotional expenses and those notorious, no-name boxes of pasta for cheap eating. Needless to say, we were slightly over budget. Unabashed negotiation and downright pleading helped make the project possible. Our graphic design firm, for example, accepted "one gig owed" as part of our payment. Nothing wrong with revisiting the old barter economy...
...Standing in front of a backdrop of blue-uniformed workers Thursday at a food packaging plant, Bush delivered his speech and took questions in his shirtsleeves. It was chilly in Wisconsin but Bush was trying to look a little more informal and accessible. He used to gig Al Gore for fishing around too much in the wardrobe closet, but as he tweaked his own uniform he was also copying Gore in other ways, by showing himself to be a tireless advocate for the working man. Describing the tax advantages that his plan would bring to the Tank family sitting...