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Because women have so little support in combining work and family, everyone is left to do it in her own ad-hoc, jury-rigged way.
Beyond Marissa Mayer, Bigger Problems for America’s New Mothers | Michelle Goldberg | July 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn eastern Libya, that often meant a Mad Max charge across the Sahara, armed to the teeth in jury-rigged pickups and sedans.
Designed as a skirt, it was jury-rigged into a dress by Middleton—or by some stage-hand with an eye for provocation.
Kate Middleton's Charity-Auction Dress Auctioned in London | Robin Givhan | March 15, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
The filmmakers were shooting their moving target from an adult-size tricycle jury-rigged for the occasion.
That is why the Geithner plan is so complex and jury-rigged, to avoid the need for public requests for more money for banks.
"I wouldn't call our friends vassals, or say the system was jury-rigged," Flannery objected.
Victory | Lester del ReyShe lifts high enough to show the stump of the foremast with head-sails jury rigged.
Blackbeard: Buccaneer | Ralph D. PainePerry grinned at the jury-rigged cooler and rummaged around in its mouth for a while.
Makers | Cory DoctorowThe Agamemnon had been jury-rigged for the service, her heavy masts and rigging removed, and lighter ropes and spars substituted.
The Atlantic Telegraph | William Howard RussellThis was no occasion calling for remarkable ingenuity to make some sort of jury-rigged drive.
Talents, Incorporated | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
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