Less than 18 months after being elected speaker, Paul Ryan has emerged from the defeat of the health care bill badly damaged, retaining a grip on the
job but left to confront the realities of his failure — imperiling the
odd -
couple partnership that was supposed to sustain a new era of conservative government under unified Republican rule.
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Job, The Conversation, The Birdcage, The Quick and the Dead, Sunset Boulevard, Ace in the Hole, The Apartment, Double Indemnity, Full Metal Jacket, Alien, Barfly, Bonnie and Clyde, The Wrestler, The
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I've had to perform a
couple of
odd jobs on the Blazer over the years, including nominal things like fuses, medium
jobs like swapping out the battery, and up to having to change out the fuel filter after it died one day.
I had built up my savings from
odd jobs, internships, gift money and allowance money I'd received up to that point and it took all of the first
couple of decades of my life to get there.