Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back in Little Rock she was employed at the Rose Law Firm as a rainmaker. A rainmaker is someone who, due to their social status, can attract big-name clients. Hillary's status was based solely on her husband's rise through the Arkansas political establishment. Incidentally, while at the Rose firm, she used her time productively, managing to mire herself in a number of highly questionable savings and loans deals. You may recall that during a federal investigation a few years back, the records of one of these deals mysteriously surfaced in her domain of the White House residence...
...legs. Would someone pick a person up and move them?" asked Lorraine Greiff, director of the Massachusetts Office on Disability. "You can't just take away someone's liberties by picking them up and treating them like they were a pencil that fell to the floor. Does that rise to the level of assault? I don't know, but I would say that it's as serious as pushing," she said...
...feel very strongly that as a nation we will rise or fall together," Patrick said in his testimony earlier this week...
According to Fitzsimmons, the rise inapplicants is constant across the board, withgeographic, gender and ethnic ratios remainingroughly the same...
...rewards of being the biggest thesis are many: Kleiner's opus will soon be published and he's on the rise in L.A.--on the way to becoming a big-shot...