Word: maids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...room service. It's probably worth a try; I could handle room service for two weeks. I wouldn't mind maid service, either. And hotels usually have jacuzzis and mints-on-the-pillows and helpful, friendly staffs. None of that would be so bad. There's no place like home, but if it were like the Ritz, that would be cool...
Some activist Lambs prefer to be called by code names by outsiders and often use a paramilitary lingo of "spiritual battle" and "satanic strongholds." One of them, a 34-year-old art school graduate known as "Maid Marian," says the organization is "like a family." But Ann Baker, head of a New Jersey- based pro-choice information and research group, contends that normal families do not practice what she calls "harassment and intimidation." Both advocates and enemies agree that the Lambs are dead serious about their cause. As long as abortion in the U.S. is legal, they will...
While suffering through rain delays, Harvard seldom left the hotel long enough for the maid to change the sheets. Occasionally, team members wandered aimlessly around a local mall or sat through multiple viewings of Pretty woman...
...effect abandon themselves. Others are dumped not by relatives but by landlords and even household employees. In Greenville, N.C., a 65-year-old alcoholic woman materialized on the doorstep of the Pitt County Memorial Hospital after she was shoved out of a car by a fed-up and weary maid...
...convince the American electorate of his common man image. He needs to answer jabs from Democratic presidential candidates with real changes in his lifestyle, persona and attitude. When candidate Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa says that "Bush's idea of solving a domestic problem is to fire the maid and yell at the butler," the sitting president shouldn't be vetoing unemployment benefits or remodeling the oval office. He should be portraying himself as sympathetic to--and part of--the middle class...