Word: sittering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Secretary in 2004 - are pretty obviously the inspirations for this clause, as both scandals severely muddled the respective Presidents' transition plans. Nevertheless, the verdict on this question is mixed. "I don't want somebody disqualified who can help solve the economic problem because they didn't pay the dog-sitter's Social Security," argued former Congressman John Kasich in a Nov. 14 interview with Fox News...
...Drew Barrymore is the voice of Chloe, a high-maintenance, pink-bootie-wearing Chihuahua with a hovering celebrity owner (Jamie Lee Curtis). When her careless dog sitter (Piper Perabo) takers Chloe to Mexico, the pooch is kidnapped by a dog-fighting ring. But in this pup's harrowing quest to return home to the Hills, she ends up finding her inner bark...
...reason is that the Turks showed up to play. Not the Austrians. Germany almost put the game away in the opening minutes when Miroslav Klose walked in on goal and delivered a cross to Mario Gomez three yards in front. As Gomez swung his foot forward to score the sitter, the ball took a hop and he chipped it straight up in the air. It was comically bad finishing, and the kind of break that makes you think that things weren't going to go right for Germany. Austria pressed for a goal of their own in the 18th minute...
...women who meet the criteria as a true OCD perfectionist. I'm talking about your average, everyday woman who feels uncomfortable going to bed if there are dishes in the sink. Or who feels guilty if she goes out to dinner and leaves her kids with a sitter more than once a month. Or who has a hard time finishing a project at work because she feels it isn't quite good enough. So I'm talking more about you and me, not people who have met the criteria for the diagnosis...
...spousal abuse. She works in a diner with Barb (Amy Sedaris) and is having an affair with Barb's husband Nate (Nicky Katt). Also at the diner is teenage Arthur (Michael Angarano), whose parents have split and who has had a crush on Annie since she was his baby sitter. Most of the denizens of this working-class town are searching to get or keep jobs most people would flee from - making the mortgage or feeding the kids is for them as great a quest as anything Frodo ever faced. That, and putting a down payment on a little emotional...