Word: mother-in-law
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...when Randolph arrived in Massachusetts 20 years ago, she had hardly anything. Arriving with her sick mother-in-law in the middle of winter, she spoke no English, had no job and was far from the warm shores of her native Haiti...
...less than a year before Randolph returned to America. This time, bringing with her a sick mother-in-law, she was greeted by a harsh Boston winter that was a far cry from her weather at home...
Gore, meanwhile, was starting to poke holes in his own ship. In the third week of September, reporters began to challenge him on some of the anecdotes he related in his speeches, including whether the prescription drug Lodine did cost less for his dog than for his mother-in-law. Gore's sudden drift may not have been entirely coincidental. Republican message sculptor Ed Gillespie arrived in Austin to step up the attacks on the Vice President. Constantly outgunned by Gore's better tactical operation, Bush's team started working on what it called "stink bombs," or what later became...
...months of motherhood--that hallucinatory period when a mother's heart is opened wide, even as her eyelids flutter shut. No matter what the poets say about the ethereal joys of parenthood, any exhausted parent knows it is hard to concentrate on anything--sex, eating, finally changing out of your sweatpants--if you've become a sleep junkie, jonesing for some REMs. The key for parents' getting some sleep is first getting the baby to sleep--an eternal problem that has spawned all manner of programs, products and mother-in-law's parenting tips...
...Bush hits back on Gore's Social Security criticism about Bush's two trillion-dollar promises. Evidence? A one-word quote from the WSJ - "nonsense" - and a scornful comparison of the whole line of attack to Al's anecdote about his mother-in-law and the dog with arthritis. A Gore-is-a-liar ad, dressed up as a defense of policy. Beats details...