But since her foreign-born mother left the country to receive medical care, the tirelessly competent, tough-talking young woman is doing all she can to make ends meet, including working as a cocktail waitress at various dives.
It's a leading ingredient in the conventional wisdom cocktails served at various inside-Washington media mixers.
Cocktail, cocktail, cocktail, cocktail......
Western society has denounced racism, sexism and anti-Semitism, mobilized against ageism and genderism, anguished over postcolonialism and nihilism, taken arms against Marxism, totalitarianism and absolutism, and trashed, at various conferences and cocktail parties, liberalism and conservatism.
"I even told them what I was up to -- as I ran into them over the years at various benefits and cocktail parties.
For now she is a traveling saleswoman, showing her wares at various pit stops, like the Goldman Sachs cocktail party where she sold 28 rugs.
From the toxicological point of view, the contaminants at the Bitterfeld megasite represent a dangerous cocktail of various harmful substances coming from a multitude of sources.
The Or Commission pointed out that at various demonstrations around the country Arab protesters had hurled stones and Molotov cocktails, rolled burning tires, cut off important roads to traffic.
She introduced me to her friends, who invited me to a cocktail party at their home that night, where I met some more people who I would see throughout the weekend at various places.
Conversations at various tea rooms.
