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...with and married Mirjana Markovic, daughter of a distinguished partisan and party family, and together they climbed her connections up through party ranks. Educated in the law, he filled high posts at Tehnogas and Beobank, but he was not really a lawyer, technician or banker. He was a party "fixer." By 1984 he was fixing his way through the national party, and by 1987, he led Serbia's Communist Party...
...White House editors, of course, rendered Lewinsky a witness for the defense (as indeed she was in the bulk of her deposition), while Jordan -- with David Kendall letting the tape run -- went back to sounding like just another humble fixer with friends at the top. White House counsel Nicole Seligman called the technique "context," and it poked enough holes in the managers' tapestry for the 44 Democrats who already voted for dismissal to get a good night's sleep. (Isn't there a moral in the fact that, on several occasions, the two sides used the same clips?) His trial...
...presented an unbalanced and inaccurate picture of ABB Instrumentation Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., in the portion of your report titled "When Factories Become Fixer-Uppers." In fact, the local area has benefited financially as a result of the support we were given by Monroe County, N.Y. It is true that the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency issued $21 million in bonds to support the building of a new plant. However, the company repaid this in full upon the passing of title. It is also true that the company accepted $2 million in tax abatements. These have since ceased. Instead...
Behind the scenes, however, Primakov is showing signs of determination, even ruthlessness. He has told confidants that he would like to move against one of Russia's most powerful business figures, the billionaire political fixer Boris Berezovsky. Primakov would be very happy to see Berezovsky either behind bars or living permanently outside Russia, says a political insider, and has already put the Russian security service on Berezovsky's case. He would also like to remove Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the flashy young millionaire who runs Kalmykia, a tiny republic on the Caspian Sea. Ilyumzhinov has been accused in the Russian media...
...bikes we sell are pretty much fixer-uppers, so people expect to put some work into them after the auction," said Tomlinson, who bought a bike herself...