Word: fixer
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MICHAEL CLAYTON George Clooney lends his old-time movie-star aura to the role of a "fixer" getting clients out of trouble in a large law firm. Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton co-star in this exposé of corporate chicanery...
...time we're all wrong. It's the nervous guy from Monk; it's cranky Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets. In the end, though, things usually work out for them. They even get the girl, who sees them as a kind of adorable emotional fixer-upper...
...mansions. She points out a three-bedroom "cottage" with an asking price of $137,000 - down about a third from pre-storm prices. Even though the house took on nearly five feet of water after Katrina, she figures a young couple, professionals most likely, will grab it as a fixer-upper - or demolish it and build the home of their dreams...
...partial privatization of Social Security - aren't likely to change until the policies themselves either change or yield better results. The staff turnovers that lead to new policies tend to work best. Those that just change names don't. In the case of Reagan, the arrival of Washington fixer Kenneth Duberstein as chief of staff coincided with a push for arms control with Mikhail Gorbachev and new initiatives like welfare reform. In Carter's case, no policies really changed...
THAT'S AN INTERESTING WOMAN YOU PLAY IN YOUR NEW MOVIE. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE HER? Well, she's a fixer. If something goes wrong in the upper circles, she comes in and cleans up the mess or negotiates between parties. And that means that she's not judgmental. She's kind of neutral, a sort of Switzerland. And in my book that's what makes...