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Word: sitter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trainer at Panama's Fort Kobbe, where her husband is also stationed in an engineering unit. Cuevas goes home from work for 2 1/2 hours at midday to nurse her daughter. But when Isabella becomes hungry earlier than usual, she cries until her mother, alerted by the baby sitter, rushes home to feed her. Cuevas has begun feeding her baby solid food, but Isabella obviously still needs to suckle. "When I have duty or fly at night," Cuevas told her commander, "the baby cries for hours." Distraught over such episodes, Cuevas recently paid a colleague $50 to take her place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CALL TO NURSE | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...couple of movie-mad kids from Queens, New York. Their parents, Bob recalls, "used the local theater as a baby-sitter. They'd drop us off at a triple feature and pick us up six hours later." (The boys must be grateful for the benign neglect of Miriam and Max Weinstein; the company is named after them.) After a stint as rock-concert promoters in Buffalo, New York, Harvey and Bob got into film distribution, making their rep with the 1989 hits sex, lies, and videotape and My Left Foot. Often they saw themselves as custom tailors, trimming foreign films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: INDEPENDENTS' DAY | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

LOURDES MARIA Her Material Mom scores at the Golden Globes, then splits early after talking to sitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 3, 1997 | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...been considered imponderable for most of this century. Yet here it is, another landmark racing past the windshield of this bull-market dragster. Should you care if the typical stock now yields a paltry 1 point something? After all, it's not as though your baby sitter were paging you at the opera. But yes, you should. For a lot of reasons, this is worrisome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNYIELDING MARKET | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

With its button nose and tartan bow, it looks at first glance like a typical teddy bear. But this huggable toy does more than dress up a bed. It comes equipped with a hidden camera to watch the baby-sitter while the baby-sitter watches the kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYE SPY...THE BABY-SITTER! | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

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