Word: fixer
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...years on trumped-up charges. He was out in 4. "Amnesty?" I asked. "No," he answered, "I sold my house and gave the proceeds [about $20,000] to one of the top security ministry men." After that he had worked wherever he could, at one time as a fixer for a Russian firm...
...time of Gulf War I, George W. Bush was spending a lot more time worrying about the Texas Rangers of the American League than about the Rangers in Army fatigues. During his father's presidency, Bush was an occasional and important political fixer, but he was never involved--never wanted to be involved, and was never invited to be involved--in foreign policy. When he ran for the presidency in 2000, his team of advisers spent little time on Iraq. To be sure, whenever he was asked about Saddam, Bush had the tough talk down. In an interview with TIME...
...Texas, and last year sold their first home for $80,000, 66% more than they paid for it just three years earlier. The gain prompted the Scheid's to stop sulking over their sunken stocks and focus on building wealth through real estate. They quickly bought two nearby fixer-uppers that they will sell when repairs are complete. "I expect to make, after three years with each house, between $20,000 and $30,000 per house," Darren says with confidence. That translates into an annual return in the high teens, about what many blithely came to expect from stocks just...
Onstage, Henry Goodman is a dynamo. To very different roles - from the worried husband in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass to the ruthless political fixer in Alistair Beaton's Feelgood - he brings a riveting, nervous energy. And he knows how to control it; the most compelling moment of his 1999 Olivier Award-winning Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at the Royal National Theatre was the character's sudden calm, as that energy was channeled into an overwhelming quest for revenge. Yet most people have never heard...
Garber is a Shakespearean; all the better to carry on Harvard’s humanist tradition. She is a fixer; she was brought over from the English department to lift up the Visual and Environmental Sciences Department after the disastrous administration of its previous chair. Her work in film, queer studies, as well as her directorship of Harvard’s Humanities Center, have placed her at the center of numerous academic debates and faculty discussions. Finally, after the lukewarm reception of her last book Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses, Garber may want a decade-long break...