Word: stints
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hers. Thousands showed up to welcome her and more than 100 died when that welcome-back parade was attacked by still unknown bombers. The last quarter of 2007 was filled with political maneuverings between herself, Musharraf and Nawaz Sharif, who had also returned from exile. After one more stint under house arrest while Musharraf imposed a brief emergency rule, she seemed set for another triumph at the polls. But in the end, the violent cycle of Pakistani politics claimed another victim. And once and for all, Benazir Bhutto will rally people to her cause without being able to deliver...
...some fun or else you're not going to last very long," says Diaz, a native of Virginia who joined the National Republican Congressional Committee as deputy press secretary six years ago. He was a regional spokesman for Bush-Cheney in 2004 before joining the RNC for his first stint as communications director in 2006. In early 2007 he joined John McCain's press staff, but left that campaign amid the shake-ups of last summer and landed back...
...played football and basketball at Duke and graduated with degrees in political science and public policy after a brief stint as a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers. While waiting to start a training program for Goldman Sachs, Love looked around Washington for an unpaid internship and ended up with the job as Obama's assistant...
...Gail E. Henderson, a University of North Carolina social medicine professor who knew Brandt during his two-year stint as an associate professor at the school in the early 1990s, recalled Brandt’s performance at a speech for the Infectious Diseases Society of America...
...miss big. Consequently, the movie is consistently dumb, though not consistently funny.“Walk Hard” gives the biopic genre a thorough lashing. Cox fathers dozens of children whose names he cannot remember, experiments with every drug imaginable, and is imprisoned twice, each time following a stint in rehab. Ironically, not unlike the recent Bob Dylan quasi-biopic “I’m Not There,” serious music fans will draw the most from “Walk Hard.” Reilly goes through creative phases that resemble (either implicitly or explicitly...