Word: performer
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Successful politicians have long relied on discreet aides to perform some of the onerous money-related chores of modern political life. But Knight is the epitome of a new generation of moneymen in both parties whose work doesn't end with the election; it really just begins. Fund raisers who once shelved their donor lists between elections now turn donors into clients on whose behalf they lobby the very same politicians for whom they were raising cash just weeks before. It's a seamless loop of influence peddling--donors get access, candidates get money; and lobbyists get rich...
...think the numbers of students needing early housing were larger than we expected," Epps said, noting that more students returned early to perform educational and advising roles than in the past...
...restrained from a fight with photographers on the ski slopes in Austria. And according to Richard Kay, a columnist for the Daily Mail who spoke to the princess the Saturday of the accident, William had called his mother that day, complaining that Buckingham Palace was making him "perform"--asking him to pose for the hated photographers at Eton, where he was due to report last week. Now it is Harry who is the impish one. To get a chance to mature a bit more, he will repeat a year at Ludgrove, the boarding school Wills attended, before probably joining...
...These lights actually perform better in testing that halogens," Wolinsky said...
Harvard will need to perform well in its opening game against Rhode Island on Sept...