Evangelicals excel at both social movement organizing and backroom dealmaking.
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And there is no need for some backroom delegate strategy.
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The Guptas have also denied any wrongdoing or backroom lobbying.
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There are no backroom deals; there is openness and transparency.
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Simeone's backroom staff are vital to his success, of course.
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Tory leaders used to "emerge" from backroom chats among party grandees.
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This last-minute backroom deal is so wrong; it is shocking.
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Without backroom deals struck behind closed doors, hidden from the people?
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Everybody knows that backroom deals are facilitated by a little booze.
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This last-minute backroom deal is so wrong, it is shocking.
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Oronov died not long after the backroom dealings were made public.
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Imagine a backroom of secret handshakes, only without the cigar smoke.
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It was a sign that backroom improvements are at last paying off.
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"It looks like some backroom dealing," she told the Senate Commerce Committee.
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That was years ago, and Ortiz was long gone, bodypawn backroom meat.
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There's a group of guys in a backroom somewhere making these decisions.
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Any business in Albany tends to carry the whiff of backroom dealing.
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It's time to put US citizens first, and the backroom deals last.
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Now, after some backroom wrangling, the language has become slightly more opaque.
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He'll end the primary with a party at the Puritan Backroom in Manchester.
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One thing to remember is we have a tremendous amount of backroom activity.
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But the president was keen to put aside any talk of backroom jostling.
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We've put together a new backroom staff and had elections for new directors.
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Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System, when
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You're not shoved into the backroom, you're not sent through a revolving door.
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Mr Yatseniuk's offer of resignation was followed by dissension and backroom horse-trading.
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Such transparency is good in that it ensures nefarious private backroom deals aren't cut.
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And it was all sort of backroom stuff, and that's just not my style.
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Usually political enemies, they have already begun backroom discussions about forging a governing alliance.
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The backroom deals—and that's what I thought we were gonna get with Hillary.
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More of the status quo, more of the backroom deals, the corruption, the lying.
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It was quiet, the only sound some of the volunteers chatting in the backroom.
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Many of the scouts, medics and other backroom staff also had to be replaced.
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Kabila and Tshisekedi's camps have denied striking a backroom deal and accusations of fraud.
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Christmas Eve last year, reportedly as part of a backroom deal to save his
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Collins' charges "throws their shady backroom dealings into sharp relief," the DCCC's Kelly said.
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Her location was a pilot store for changes to Target's shifts and backroom jobs.
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Most said that overnight shifts and backroom jobs had been cut from their locations.
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Among them were 14 players and three members of the backroom staff from Pakhtakor.
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The public might be turned off by the various backroom deals that would ensue.
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Rather, he won the vote count, after a rumoured backroom deal with Mr Kabila.
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Indeed, such backroom camaraderie can be helpful in building coalitions and addressing world problems.
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This is my studio in the backroom of a former seedy bar in Vienna, Austria.
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This backroom diplomacy would likely take a hit if the US Embassy changed its address.
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"We don't know what kinds of backroom deals Senate Republican leaders will cut," Murray said.
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Everyone was working in the backroom on a bill that sounded horrible to most Americans.
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Most key decisions have been made in secret, with loads of backroom meetings with lobbyists.
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This will end the "backroom deals" that shut most voices out of the governing process.
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Target confirmed some backroom and overnight shifts had been eliminated in stores throughout the country.
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The first store, which opened in Montclair, California, had its headquarters in the store's backroom.
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P.A. will not resolve litigation through backroom deals with any type of special-interest group.
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Target quietly eliminated overnight and backroom shifts in some of its stores across the country.
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The backroom dealing between Carl Icahn and the RFA puts all of that in jeopardy.
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We are finally in a backroom in the studio seated in a pleasantly cooler room.
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That's why, like many other progressives, Schatz isn't buying Trump's backroom promises this time around.
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Some were shaken down in backroom immigration offices or at the airport when they arrived.
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McCrory came into office in 2012 through a backroom deal designed to fracture our moral coalition.
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And he either actively created or cheerily abided a culture of secrecy and backroom deal-making.
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As they scrambled to get the plans taken down, they wondered: Was this a backroom deal?
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The new leader must now set about creating a Cabinet and appointing his immediate backroom staff.
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She said she emerged from the backroom to find at least five police in the house.
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Despite the backroom deals occurring so swiftly, there remains a risk of a PML-N collapse.
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I never accepted ... the backroom deals so well known in the traditional politics of our country.
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As the backroom slowly fills with sissies, I approach Rose and ask if we can chat.
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Web searches like Google and Bing claim to be based on impartial algorithms, not backroom deals.
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It is not designed to illuminate politics from the inside out, with tales of backroom maneuvering.
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If the bill is passed, most of the credit will go to those 10 backroom dealers.
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Now there are legitimate questions whether a backroom deal was made between Tedros and his supporters.
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This process — internally dubbed "modernization" — involves eliminating some overnight and backroom shifts and changing stocking processes.
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The release said McConnell cared more about his "backroom deal with Democrats" than about fiscal conservatism.
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Yet a few years later, their sage experience is the valued currency of many backroom conversations.
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"A backroom deal that would bypass the Danish referendum result is not an option," he said.
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Keeping secret whatever conditions it has relayed to the Egyptian government increases suspicion of backroom deals.
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Yair Tarchitsky, the chairman of Israel's Journalists' Union, said the suggestions of a backroom deal were shocking.
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Backroom arguments aren't good enough anymore; the US needs to warn Israel away from its current path.
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When someone signs up for Jyve, they start with easier tasks like moving boxes in the backroom.
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Beijing has often attempted to thwart activity through backroom diplomatic threats and, at times, pressure at sea.
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But sometimes maps produce unrepresentative results not because of smoky backroom deals or elaborate data-driven gerrymandering.
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Target eliminated overnight and backroom shifts in stores across the country, the company confirmed to Business Insider.
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House Republicans held no hearings on their plan, and Senate Republicans plan a similarly secretive backroom approach.
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Many observers of Puerto Rican politics have noted that backroom deals and closed door negotiations are endemic.
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Target's move to cut overnight and backroom shifts in stores across the US hasn't just inconvenienced workers.
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Wade was that so many women were sick and dying from backroom abortions or self-induced abortions.
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The club has a fair-sized dance floor and a tiny backroom, separated only by a curtain.
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The sheer number of forums, cybercriminal handles, and backroom dealings can be overwhelming to researchers or journalists.
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Saleh has denied seeking to advance his son's political career or any backroom dealing with their enemies.
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The American people, no matter how they feel about Trump, want to end cronyism and backroom deals.
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Pretty much everything now depends on backroom negotiations among Gantz, Netanyahu, the rest of Likud, and Lieberman.
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Mr Fernández is known as a wily, backroom operative, but few have any sense of his own agenda.
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Failing that, he would like to move into the backroom team and gain experience as a deputy skipper.
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But Theranos remains in shambles, and no amount of backroom dealing has helped the company avoid its fate.
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Much of the management and backroom team are from Kashmir, though the coach David Robertson is from Scotland.
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Backroom deals between some of those parties and Ortega eroded Nicaraguans' confidence in them, analysts and pollsters say.
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The new leader also immediately set about creating a Cabinet of his closet ministers and his backroom staff.
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Over 200 Labour activists have crammed into a backroom more used to 18th birthday parties than political rallies.
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It's the kind of backroom drama that tends to play out in secret, until someone files a lawsuit.
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It was a product of backroom negotiations between lawmakers, far left activists and corporations seeking consumer-funded handouts.
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While held up in the station's backroom, we asked the guards on what grounds they were detaining us.
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He was doing a roaring trade with backroom quid pro quos, which to him was simply normal behaviour.
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The vote by the five commissioners was delayed for more than three hours as backroom negotiations took place.
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This has led to speculation among Kabila's critics that Tshisekedi and Kabila struck some kind of backroom deal.
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A backroom that's behind a quaint taco shack that happens to be gigantic club bigger than the shack.
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How properties became stuck on the commission's calendar is a story of backroom politics and bureaucracy for another time.
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The backroom conversations politicians have with their base always seem to come back and bite them in the ass.
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Her experience, and others' grumbles that the whole process looked a bit like backroom dealing, likely swayed their decision.
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Instead they wound up in a box on a backroom storage shelf, amid a sea of other forgotten artifacts.
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The fun of a character like Underwood was his backroom deals and underhanded tricks to get what he wanted.
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Instead, legislation was agreed to in backroom deals, then put onto the floor intact for final debate and votes.
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If there is agreement, it must be secured in a (backroom) way that allows both sides to claim victory.
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There were no backroom negotiations with the defense, because Regan and her defendants were eager to present their case.
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"TPA in this Congress has become enmeshed in corrupt Washington backroom dealing," Cruz wrote on the conservative website Breitbart.
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A second worry is that the new president, despite his backroom flair, may fail to secure majorities for reforms.
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Gerace told NBC Los Angeles he was working in the backroom when he heard the commotion around 3 p.m.
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A backroom that's behind a quaint taco shack that happens to be a gigantic club bigger than the shack.
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But after six months of presidential speeches, backroom bargaining and massaging of budget projections, Reagan got what he wanted.
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Thus, a space-faring, war-fighting military service was born, thanks to good, old-fashioned backroom wheeling and dealing.
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"This was not a backroom deal," said Gavin Molloy, United's vice president for corporate real estate and environmental affairs.
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They're grounded in a shallow approach to policy that's more rooted in backroom deals than in real world consequences.
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But to attempt to go back to the old backroom nominating approach cuts against other transformations in American politics.
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His hiring of Prashant Kishor, the backroom strategist who helped chart Modi's rise to national power, did not pay off.
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Warren also, without evidence, suggested the social network had adopted the policy as part of a backroom deal with Trump.
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Khanjar's emergence from backroom deal-maker to would-be Sunni champion is just one sign of Iraq's continued political drift.
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But tonight, behind a red curtain that separates a small backroom from the rest of the shop, sissies are assembling.
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From the comfort of his parents' backroom, he was orchestrating an all-out internet war, and his views were exploding.
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It doesn't matter how many backroom meetings the Koch brothers organize or what Reince Priebus does to rally RNC delegates.
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Absent from the backroom dealmaking was the other, stronger shot-caller, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, or KDP, based in Erbil.
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Employees are expected to assist guests while stocking and bring trash and nonstocked items back into the backroom as needed.
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A wily backroom dealmaker, Cunha and his supporters have used every rule in the book to delay proceedings against him.
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"It is not from an internal, backroom or boardroom conversation ... we will listen to Kenyans and our customers," Mwangi said.
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The frenetic, last minute deal-making that always accompanies these self-made funding cliffs makes conditions ripe for backroom deals.
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The small Blythe farm, with its patriarch shivering in a bed in the backroom, didn't stand much of a chance.
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AMERICA'S BITTER PILLMoney, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System (2015)By Steven Brill512 pp.
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There he found the senator and columnist Drew Pearson, the much feared newspaperman known for his exposes of backroom deals.
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Trump's proposal will be the opening gambit in a months-long process consisting of hearings, backroom negotiations, and political grandstanding.
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A diorama of Burnstad, ND, in the Logan County Museum Glueckstal Church outside Tappen, ND Type and photo blocks gather dust in the backroom of the Napoleon Homestead Jerome Schwarzenberger, former publisher and editor of 60+ years, in the backroom of the Napoleon Homestead Rex Sorgatz on West Lake outside Napoleon Napoleon Homestead, Sept.
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Their two-sibling approach to ownership, stemming from the departed Jerry Buss' passive backroom misogyny, isn't doing them any favors, either.
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They are sad little affairs, our get-togethers, on Saturday nights in the backroom of someone's house in Port-au-Prince.
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The result was a bill designed in secrecy, built atop backroom deals, and crafted with little buy-in from his members.
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Bobo immediately spots a Sons of Lucifer jacket and splits off to pick a fight with a backroom full of 'em.
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If I wanted opaque backroom deals to determine what content is available to me, I've already got TV and the radio.
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Republicans accused Democrats of the same kind of backroom deal-making seven years ago when they were working on Obamacare. Sen.
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Gone are the days of governments choosing justices "through a secretive backroom process", Mr Trudeau promised in an op-ed article.
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On weekend nights, the Elm & Main lounge takes over the backroom and features D.J.s and an open kitchen till 3503 a.m.
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The courts must decide whether the proposed settlement is in the public interest and not the result of a backroom deal.
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"We were shocked and disappointed that the Trump administration would make a secret backroom deal with very little notice," Gardiner said.
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For the first hour, Republicans stayed in their backroom debating a number of matters, while Democrats waited for them to emerge.
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Backroom deals and promises, Farrier explained, could blunt some Freedom Caucus ire and convince them to get out of the way.
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It's an unwieldy style, but one that operates on a sense of equality and engagement rather than backroom deals and needling.
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They set up a big data operation - cloning the backroom setup used by Modi in his own rise to national power.
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But Ryan doesn't do that, Trump lamented, floating the theory that party leaders are conspiring against him and striking backroom deals.
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He told the lawyers, "Great job, you guys," and hugged one of them as he was led away to a backroom.
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On arrival, I was pointed in the direction of a backroom space where an optometrist greeted me before beginning the exam.
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The development in the Senate follows months of backroom wrangling between lawmakers and the Trump administration ahead of a February deadline.
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We oppose any process for a DACA solution that favors a backroom deal with Democrats over regular order in the House.
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Those days may be over, but that doesn't mean backroom deals still aren't determining key policy decisions in our nation's capital.
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Pebble alleged that the EPA violated a law prohibiting backroom dealing; the case was settled as part of last year's pact.
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Can the "golden boy of Canadian politics...shed the impression of backroom sleaze, business-as-usual politics" in time to win?
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The outcome could be extremely bloody or, given the quixotic nature of Libya's power struggles and backroom dealing, over quite fast.
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Paradox's main room throbbed with golden era techno, while its beloved backroom bounced with a classic selection of breakbeats and house.
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House conservatives pressured him to resign after they grew sick of him ramming through last-minute, backroom spending deals with Democrats.
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Instead, it's a backroom deal that changes the AHCA so it's easier for insurance companies to charge sick people more for coverage.
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Waymo now tells Backchannel that backroom negotiations with Uber produced assurances that the company would not infringe the patent in the future.
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Even among Republicans on Capitol Hill, Trump's scandals have made for backroom chatter about what a Mike Pence administration might look like.
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The mayor was the arch-exponent of machine politics, using patronage, control of party funds and backroom deals to out-manoeuvre opponents.
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The shop's backroom has stacks of antique books right up to the rafters and is busy with browsers long into the evening.
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Jamie decides to put on some pants, and leads Claire to the backroom where he has a bed and washstand set-up.
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His message, which echoes that of populist parties across Europe, appeals to Czechs disillusioned with the murky backroom dealings of traditional parties.
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We the players and the backroom staff are going to support him so that it doesn't have any effect on the field.
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"I don't talk politics here," a local woman said, having led the way into a backroom of her business in the town.
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Brock Lesnar is back, somehow, and we don't know how many backroom favors had to be called in to get him here.
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In August, lawmakers in the US Congress will take a break from their bipartisan disputes and backroom dealmaking for the summer recess.
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There are signs that all the backroom talk and speculation, breathlessly covered by the political press, is putting some nerves on edge.
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McConnell has said he's willing to make changes to win support, and in the week ahead, plenty of backroom bargaining is expected.
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In other words, they may be rewarded in the metaphorical "smoke-filled backroom" with campaign contributions or other favors from vested interests.
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Lobbying, often thought of in connection with big business and backroom deals, also might not fit with the view of the Quakers.
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Lowson says bands, sports teams, and Ticketmaster can't continue to decry scalping while continuing to cut backroom deals that only help scalpers.
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But it's important to keep in mind that this wouldn't be a true closed-door, backroom convention like those of the past.
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He has replaced longstanding servants to the club at backroom and board level, often with Italian associates and people he already knows.
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The same old glitter and shine on the old, leather shoe, the righteous activism of yore, the war stories and backroom fucks.
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" The tense exchange inside the Puritan Backroom diner ended with Mr. Rubio walking away and the displeased voter calling him a "typical politician.
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"The workmen who had been clearing the home said that they had found a body under a rug in the backroom," she said.
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"This backroom stitch-up after days of talks is grotesque, it satisfies no one but party power games," said Greens leader Ska Keller.
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Cruz has crafted an image of himself as an outsider, the enemy of Wall Street bailouts and backroom deals with the big banks.
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That's what will get you into exclusive backroom meetings with the likes of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Temer, a 75-year-old attorney and former speaker of the House known as a backroom negotiator, is someone investors seem to like.
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But since 2014, he has eased the DRS military intelligence service out of politics, last year firing its chief, a backroom king-maker.
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When police entered the house, said Kathrina, she was in a backroom and Cherwen was upstairs with his friends, sleeping off the booze.
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Salih's election marked the first time in modern Iraqi politics that one of the three top posts was selected without a backroom deal.
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She ushers him into the backroom, where he changes into a calf-length skirt, a brown-striped sweater, and a long black wig.
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The backroom of Wicked Grounds is now crowded with men in various states of cross-dress, the majority of whom are extremely closeted.
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A brokered convention of backroom deals to consolidate delegates and decide the nominee would be disastrous heading into the general election, he said.
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But if the Republican Party tries to pull off any backroom deals and ignores the will of the people, our role will change.
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Flake appeared visibly shaken by the encounters and met with Democrats in a backroom, announcing his call for an FBI probe shortly after.
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It could just as easily have been premier Christine Elliott, save for fickle fortune and Ford's Stalin-level skills at backroom partisan thuggery.
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Customers can peruse products on their website and pick up purchases in a backroom at one of three pharmacies, all located in Cotonou.
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New Yorkers for Fair Energy, a consumer group, called it a "backroom deal," saying it will cost ratepayers $7.6 billion over 12 years.
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The problem, however, is that the rules are just the surface of a quagmire of backroom behavior by federal regulators and captive industries.
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"Remember this isn't the first time these backroom negotiations have dangled a carrot in front of the markets," said Oanda trader Stephen Innes.
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American politics has long been manipulated by Big Oil, with massive campaign financing as well as backroom lobbying not seen by the public.
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If Trump wins a clear plurality of delegates, his supporters will be infuriated if the nomination were "stolen" from him by backroom elites.
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Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), it's no wonder that Sanders supporters feel aggrieved at the idea of backroom deals depriving Sanders of the nomination.
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LENS The photo series "Humans Against Music" chronicles the weekly, low-tech karaoke sessions at Freddy's Bar and Backroom in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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Of course, another problem is ensuring that filmmakers are honest during such negotiations and don't later cut better backroom deals with male stars.
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What's more, the plan had the distinct smell of a backroom deal cooked up by campaign strategists as an act of pure desperation.
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Mobile is vastly more expensive, continues to be less reliable, and comes loaded with all sorts of strange restrictions based on opaque backroom deals.
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In each of the hold-ups, employees of the jewelry stores were ordered to a backroom where they were zip-tied, the affidavit states.
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Inequality also surged, and the financial system seemed riven by corrupt backroom dealings, but it seemed to many like a reasonable price to pay.
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He's said her Trump endorsement was the result of political backroom dealings and adopted much of the president's "America First" rhetoric as his own.
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Backroom deals between politicians and media-owners are of course a feature of every democracy, but this level of engagement rarely comes to light.
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Backroom teams used to unload boxes and make sure inventory was in stock, but Target moved some of those employees to the sales floor.
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Unfortunately, backroom deals and cronyism between political appointees and mining lobbyists have left us with no choice but to petition the courts for relief.
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It's doing so, Jefferies said, by "cleaning out the backroom" so that more of its product goes right from the warehouse to the shelves.
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The emails obtained through a Pennsylvania Right to Know Act request offer a peek at how the company manipulates the system through backroom dealings.
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Backroom negotiations between U.S. officials, opposition leadership and members of the military and Maduro's regime seem to have been attempted but didn't end conclusively.
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It's hard to imagine a process more antithetical to the free and open values underpinning the Internet than the backroom negotiations surrounding the TPP.
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A representative from that particular store declined to comment on Friday about whether or not it had also ended its overnight and backroom shifts.
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The group changed course, accepting a backroom deal from billionaire refinery owner Carl Icahn to change the "the point of obligation" under the RFS.
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In the crowded backroom of a pub in Berlin, 60 people are crowded around a table lined with crockpots full of creamy, homemade hummus.
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No hard information is currently available on how much his publisher is paying him for his backroom stories about the President who fired him.
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Izembek Refuge belongs to all Americans, and we will fight this illegal backroom deal that would irreparably damage this vital wilderness preserve in court.
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The ongoing effort by some in Congress to open the spigot on the PFC is beginning to feel a lot like a backroom deal.
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Mr Macri's team insist that Mr Fernández, who is an experienced backroom operator but not a crowd-puller, is a worse candidate than she is.
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Overseeing the campaign, with support from the backroom team camped out at Modi's sprawling bungalow in the capital, was Adhia, a top finance ministry official.
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And he said that backroom may be "robotically manned to fulfill the top-100 or top-500 items" sought for pickup by digital food shoppers.
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Illuminati meetings, backroom deals between cloistered businessmen, and clubhouses populated by boys in the 3rd grade all hinge on the success of the secret handshake.
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One benefit of such a system is that it might thwart lobbyists, special interest groups, and backroom government dealings by keeping politicians far more honest.
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Glen Ella will join a backroom team that includes defense coach Paul Gustard, forwards coach Steve Borthwick and another new arrival, scrum coach Neal Hatley.
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As in each of the past eight years, parliament is wrangling over budget approval, an opaque process that has encouraged backroom deals, waste and corruption.
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Two months of backroom negotiations and mounting pressure for senators to deliver on their promise to repeal and replace Obamacare still left the plan short.
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"All we want is a floor vote and we've got a pretty good chance to do that as long as some backroom deal doesn't happen."
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By extension, international agreements, it is implied, are a betrayal of domestic voters—backroom deals cooked up by global elites looking after their own interests.
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Australia's lofty rhetoric about transparency and good governance looks hypocritical to the entire region, thanks to the secrecy and backroom dealings surrounding its refugee policy.
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Louie Swisher: So, I think a lot of stuff ... and also just backhanded, backroom deals of data usage that the public doesn't really know about.
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That's why we cannot support backroom deals and create a perception of some kind of cabal or demagoguery to deny the will of the people.
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Reversing course so quickly only confirms that the strong-arming and backroom dealing that made the DNC so toxic in 2016 is alive and well.
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"A bill of this importance merits hearings, expert testimony and thorough legal analysis, not the 'backroom dealing' that created this deeply flawed draft," he said.
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The "super-sort" process is what has caused a lot of the issues in the backroom, the former employee who shared the rollout guide said.
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Many of them said their backrooms had become messier since the changes were implemented, and 13 said they felt their stores' backroom had become unsafe.
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A former employee in a Wisconsin Target store told Business Insider that she hurt herself in the backroom multiple times before quitting in October 2018.
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Target cut overnight and backroom shifts in some of its stores across the US over the past several months, the retailer confirmed in an email.
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Alongside this belching motorcade of backroom dealing and cronyism rides the nuclear industry, which stands to benefit from the NOPR more or less by accident.
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Backroom machinations to protect SNC-Lavalin, one of Canada's few global corporations, proved to many Canadians that his promise to do politics differently was empty.
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The bizarre backroom shenanigans that took place during the sentencing of Trump's friend and former adviser Roger Stone also provide grist for Assange's legal team.
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In no way is this lament for the era of elites and backroom bosses vetting candidates, or press barons singularly framing issues or anointing presidents.
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The NY Times reports that roughly 200 Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group are in Libya, taking Moscow's backroom support for Haftar onto the battlefield.
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Labor leaders at SEIU disputed reports of a backroom deal, telling the Times that the union supports AB 25 and full employee status for drivers.
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Even the little touch of Lana suffering the injury in the Rumble pre-show two hours earlier showed there was no hotdogging by the backroom staff.
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"He goes racing around the apartment looking for Beef, who happened to be in the backroom doing a telephonic job interview," Schultheis remembered with a laugh.
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"It has moved the conversation about CSR from the backroom to the boardroom," says Richa Bajpai of Goodera, which helps firms to devise and monitor projects.
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"I like 'forced fem,'" Ken explains to me in the backroom of Wicked Grounds, a famed Bay Area "kink cafe" and the location of Sissy Night.
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"Twenty-four years ago I was raped at gunpoint in the cold, dark backroom of the Payless shoe store where I was then working," Union said.
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As of now, both populists have a chance of taking the fight to the convention and even, barring a backroom establishment deal, of winning the nomination.
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Paralleling these backroom machinations are a concerted media campaign by Trump's allies to discredit the FBI and the ongoing special counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller.
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Normally a backroom operator, McHenry this week publicly announced he had raised $2023 million for his colleagues this cycle and held nearly 200 fundraising events. Rep.
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Target quietly cut overnight and backroom shifts in stores across the US, which workers say has created an increase in workload for those on daytime shifts.
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A current part-time backroom employee with a California Target who works with apparel said she has had three major panic attacks in the past year.
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Without people working those overnight and backroom shifts, the back rooms in many Target stores have become overcrowded and, in some cases, unsafe, some workers said.
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I got caught up with gambling at the golf course, the backroom card games at the casinos with buddies there, and eventually betting on sporting events.
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These employees were not overnight or backroom workers, but all but one said the shift changes added stress to their jobs and those of their colleagues.
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Before taking on TCS from his leaf-fringed, colonial office in south Mumbai, Chandra, now 53, was seen by rivals and insiders as a backroom operator.
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"There is negligible or rather zero result as far as this 'quiet backroom dialogue' is concerned," Sangay said in the Tibetan bureau office in New Delhi.
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Backroom deals to trade being highlighted in its IGTV algorithm in exchange for high-quality content could win the hearts of these stars and their managers.
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The inception of "the couch" in porn dates back as early as 2007, with the launch of "Backroom Casting Couch" by Arizona-based pornographer Eric Whitaker.
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It wasn't because of mischievous gremlins falsifying their time cards in a backroom, but settings in the software the hospital used to track comings and goings.
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In regulated and semi-regulated markets, investment decisions are often based on long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) influenced by backroom lobbying and other sociopolitical pressures.
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Meanwhile Ben was totally stealing the scene by chewing up a banana and spitting it out, an activity usually reserved for the backroom at the Cock.
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Most front line medical workers will not strike, their unions said, in order to continue serving the public, but backroom and support staff will walk out.
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That alone would have dissolved the skepticism and bad feelings that now threaten to cast any Supreme Court decision as unduly influenced by backroom partisan deals.
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In the 23s, voters in New Hampshire and Iowa decisively replaced party bosses who once got to make backroom decisions about who would be the nominee.
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It's not the first time Murkowski has thrown shade at Mitch McConnell, the wily Republican Senate Majority Leader famous for his legendary backroom vote-counting skills.
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Even in the great game of Chicago politics, where backroom deals are a way of life, Gutiérrez's move managed to stun and surprise the Democratic establishment.
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Supporters of the other main opposition candidate say the vote was rigged after Tshisekedi reached a backroom deal to share power with outgoing President Joseph Kabila.
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DiPascali's testimony helped seal the fate of the so-called Madoff Five, backroom staffers at Madoff's investment advisory business, which was at the heart of the fraud.
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At festivals and in backroom conversations, in interviews and at cocktail parties, plenty of people are talking about broadening who even gets to tell stories in Hollywood.
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Antholis notes that the administration could possibly eventually pass this bill through backroom wheeling and dealing, but sees no clear path for it to proceed as is.
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Even before the Globe and Mail, a national newspaper, first published the allegations of backroom pressure on Ms Wilson-Raybould, the Liberals were dropping in the polls.
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These amendments and negotiations, which brought the AHCA over the finish line in the House, were made through private backroom negotiations between members and the White House.
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The docents in the joint were backroom clerics, the odd refugee from CB culture (literally "breaker, breaker"), and wallflowers hoping for a new shot at social life.
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The people are left out of the backroom deals being cut in Congress, the corporate bailouts, the onerous regulations imposed on them by a massive federal government.
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One, the truth will probably be spurted out on numerous occasions because he talks from the heart before the backroom spin doctors turn the truth into lies.
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"The decision to purchase weapons should be based solely on the performance of the system, not on backroom political and business deals," Grazier said in his blog.
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"Private backroom nominations committees producing 'recommended' slates, county delegations voting in blocs, floor motions made targeting our supporters," Trump national delegate director Brian Jacks told Breitbart News.
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Target quietly cut overnight and backroom shifts in stores across the US in an effort to increase the availability of workers to help guests on the floor.
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The right to self-determination, if it is to mean anything, is best be exercised by the direct vote of the electorate and not by backroom dealings.
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He said he was now expected to complete what he considers eight hours of work in a five-hour shift because of extra responsibilities involving the backroom.
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Target team members in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and in Wisconsin confirmed that their locations had also experienced a change in their overnight and backroom shifts.
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"I feel all of my backroom work has been fantastic and my preparation has been coming along nicely," the 35-year-old Englishman told reporters on Tuesday.
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Those backroom machinations can, and often do, make or break deals like this , and the real calculus behind key votes is often not visible to the public.
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To get a perspective on the senior set up, I speak to Rickey Gill, a former player with Gymkhana FC and a backroom volunteer with the side.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - He made his name as a ruthless backroom politician and master strategist who won election victories for his boss, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Jesus last weekend criticized the Rio state football Federation for allowing games to go on, saying footballers and backroom staff were "not superhuman" and deserved more care.
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Instead of more secret meetings and backroom deals, they could use the extra two weeks they've given themselves in August to hold hearings on health care reform.
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In office he maintained a stately air even while bashing together backroom deals (much like his successor as finance minister, Arun Jaitley, who died on August 24th).
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The state Department of Health and Human Services said the people who became sick had attended an event at Manchester's Puritan Backroom conference center on Nov. 24.
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At a meeting in the senator's Fairmont Hotel suite, I listened to him thunder to movers-and-shakers at a backroom strategy meeting, minus the cigar smoke.
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There he meets a cynical beauty who lost both father and husband in the mid-century wars, backroom and battlefield, that defined the contours of Israeli statehood.
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Two political blocs - Bina, backed by Iran, and Islah, led by populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr - are closely involved in backroom discussions to agree on a candidate.
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But almost invariably, she said, those bills are amended on the floor or changed in backroom negotiations to allow 2202- and 2628-year-olds to get married.
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In September, Business Insider's Shoshy Ciment reported on Target's new "modernization" plan that has involved cutting some backroom and overnight shifts, leaving some stock rooms in disarray.
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Two blocs of political parties, one backed by Iran and the other populist and anti-Iranian, are closely involved in backroom deals to agree on a candidate.
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News of the backroom deal has further incensed ride-hail drivers in Los Angeles who helped organize a strike in May for higher pay and union rights.
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Again, Trump has dragged something out of Europe&aposs backroom and put it on stage and he didn&apost give [bleep] that he might have violated some decorum.
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Debt disputes were often handled through backroom negotiations, mainly because local officials are typically more worried about the prospect of creating unemployment than they are about angering creditors.
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Algeria's leadership — once dominated by backroom power struggles between Bouteflika's civilian loyalists and generals — has come under more scrutiny than usual since Bouteflika suffered a stroke in 2013.
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The Conservatives, the largest opposition party in parliament, and the left-leaning New Democrats accuse Trudeau of old-style backroom deals and trying to cover up what happened.
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A candidate who receives few if any votes on the first ballot, yet pulls enough backroom deals to take a majority on the second, "looks like" a cheater.
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That was the clearest indication yet that Trump committed an illegal act during his campaign, and it had nothing at all to do with backroom deals with Russia.
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The art-club theme comes alive in the backroom, where the Barn-Gruin Gallery opens May 27 with a photo exhibition, "Punks, Poets and Provocateurs," by Marcia Resnick.
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Going around back to pick up a sex toy doesn't raise suspicion since many pharmacies already have a backroom where customers can ask private questions of the pharmacist.
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Then, it followed the playbook of other big corporations and used backroom lobbying and piecemeal bargaining to get its way on research and development tax credits for instance.
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His smile when he poses with voters is a rictus, he ducks fund-raising calls, and he lacks patience for the backroom hugger-mugger required to pass legislation.
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Target previously confirmed to Business Insider that it eliminated backroom and overnight shifts in some stores to increase the availability of workers to assist guests on the floor.
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In other words, Target was hoping to get products sorted more efficiently in the backroom so workers could spend more time on other tasks on the sales floor.
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Yet two-high powered female ministers have quit over the case and he now finds himself accused of trying to arrange a backroom deal with a major company.
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" She added that she supported the recent missile strikes on Syria, but, "I don't know what kind of potentially, you know, backroom deals were made with the Russians.
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She spent years studying bankruptcy and observed first-hand how backroom deals between industry executives and lawmakers made it easier for one financial setback to shatter people's lives.
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That announcement came during a two-day visit to Hanoi by U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis and followed months of backroom military diplomacy between Hanoi and the Pentagon.
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Ride-hail drivers in Los Angeles, who helped organize a strike in May for higher pay and union rights, have been angered by news of the backroom discussions.
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The thinking is that whatever process emerges, whether a conference committee or some sort of more backroom dealings between Ryan and McConnell, will be dominated by Republican leadership.
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In the modest backroom of the neighborhood association's base in Poblenou, local residents were giving feedback, one-by-one, to OdourCollect's project managers after trying out the app themselves.
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The evening began in earnest with representatives from 21 campaigns standing in a backroom, Clyburn presiding, trying to hash out the Democratic Party's most pressing issue: The speaking order.
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On Twitter Wednesday night, San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co., which has publicly opposed North Carolina's transgender bathroom law, urged lawmakers to reject what it called a "backroom" deal.
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Trying to get to the bottom of the backroom negotiations between BP and the Mexican government required two years of freedom of information requests, and reviewing thousands of documents.
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The anti-establishment 5-Star was founded 10 years ago, shaking up Italian politics and promising to bring transparency to a world renowned for backroom deals and rampant corruption.
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Putin has struck a series of backroom understandings with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan to ease the path to a possible deal, several sources familiar with the process say.
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White Settlement mayor Ron White (not that Ron White) suggests backroom sniping over a puppy that was kicked out of government is to blame for the anti-cat vote.
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The lawsuit quotes from a Reuters investigation and reports published in October that revealed details of a backroom battle between the Breitmans and Gevers over control of the project.
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"It's such a no-brainer," James Fearnley tells me as I clink glasses with him and Spider Stacy in the backroom of Tom Bergin's Irish pub in Los Angeles.
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Nestled next to video piece by Julia Madsen in the backroom of the gallery, small piles of black sand lay out on the ground, spelling out Seldon Yuan's installation.
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A new way to sort and stock"This is a call to action with a goal of consistency across every backroom in all 1,839+ stores," the rollout guide says.
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"There were a lot of backroom deals in Dallas," said Gil Garza, the new director of athletics for the Dallas schools, who is charged with cleaning up this system.
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Killer PoBoys: Once situated in the backroom of a French Quarter bar, Killer PoBoys now has its own space on Dauphine Street, and it's more than a worthwhile stop.
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Jesus had criticised the Rio state football federation for allowing games to go on last weekend, saying footballers and backroom staff were "not super human" and deserved more care.
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Every four years, the chatter begins in earnest over the winter: Will this be the year that party elites, through backroom deals, end up picking their own, favored candidate?
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Since the beginning of the year, the Buffalo Chronicle has published unsigned articles based on unnamed sources that allege backroom dealings at the highest levels of the Canadian government.
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The American people deserve better than these unprecedented political maneuvers, backroom political deals and this absolute violation of the very norms that act as the foundation of our democracy.
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And we're not just talking old, retired scents that have been stacking up in a backroom — this sale is for all the 3-wick candles, no matter the scent.
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Then, whether by backroom dealing, horse trading, arm twisting, or simple persuasion, they have to meld the separate House-passed and Senate-passed versions of the bill into one.
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The social media team is moving the contents of this hidden backroom video library to front-and-center by uploading them all to their YouTube channel and their website.
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Wander out the back door and you'll find the Backroom, a 20-seat restaurant that serves farm-to-table tasting menus paired with serious cocktails, esoteric wines and Vermont nanobrews.
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Who among us can remember every hand shaken, every appointment kept, every 30-year-old underling plotting a backroom conversation with Vladimir Putin to acquire dirt on a political opponent?
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Where Rajan is known for pithy one-liners at news conferences and speeches larded with social criticism, Patel is seen as more of a backroom technocrat who avoids the limelight.
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Spain now enters another round of backroom talks to see which parties can form a governing coalition, a task that eluded them despite months of negotiations following the December vote.
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Rare earths, though not as rare as the name suggests, are sold in differing grades, often via murky backroom deals, and the volumes are too low for a commodities exchange.
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Watch: Former Senator Gordon Humphrey on Stop Trump To Trump critics, this seems like an outrageous flouting of procedure, likely due to behind-the-scenes arm twisting and backroom deals.
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The twists and turns of backroom deals mean that a "grand bargain" between Germany and France encompassing other top EU jobs could yet put a Frenchman at the top again.
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When Khamenei was chosen in 1989 after Khomeini's death, the decision was taken only after elaborate backroom dealing that went far beyond a simple tally of votes in the Assembly.
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Now that a copy has been leaked, some in Congress are urging the House Oversight Committee to investigate the contract, flagging "sweetheart contracts and backroom deals," Klippenstein noted on Twitter.
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"It is clearer than ever that the path to continue making health care work better for patients and families isn't through partisanship or backroom deals," Murray said in a statement.
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I wish that he had found room for it in the movie; what could be more beautifully suited to Oldman's depiction of Churchill than these backroom mumbles and self-goadings?
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"I am not convinced that it really made much of a difference, and I don't know what kind of potentially backroom deals were made with the Russians," Clinton told Amanpour.
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But now, with the latest revelations alleging backroom collaboration between Moro and Deltan Dallagnol, the case's lead prosecutor, the narrative of Brazil leading the ethical fight against corruption has imploded.
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It's unlikely for a few reasons: Duque does not have Santos's mastery over backroom Colombian politics, and Santos did not have Uribe lording over his Congress, setting the legislative agenda.
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While Backroom usually features a hidden camera aspect—adding to the mystery, does she or doesn't she know she's being watched—Casting X uses a variety of angles and settings.
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These are proposals that eliminate the cronyism, backroom deals, and hidden contracts that artificially inflate costs, and that preserve and expand choice and the important relationship between doctors and patients.
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The announcement came before Trump's lawyers had finished writing the new tariffs, setting off days of backroom jockeying between the pro-tariff and anti-tariff factions of the White House.
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A top Warren aide privately said there's no backroom deal with Biden and accused the Sanders campaign of hypocritically dishing out campaign attacks and then whining when she hits back.
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The Rugby Football Union (RFU) announced on Monday that Borthwick would be leaving his position, with Melbourne Storm coach Jason Ryles set to join Eddie Jones' backroom staff in November.
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He now finds himself accused of trying to help arrange an old-style backroom deal with a major company as his officials leaned on a high-profile woman Cabinet minister.
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First conceived as the East Coast's answer to Europe's fashionable seaside resorts, its tawdry boardwalk attractions, backroom gambling establishments, and casual violence never approached the elegance of Cannes or Biarritz.
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That backroom effort to control the media narrative is just one of the fresh revelations contained in a massive 2,500-page pile of documents released Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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That backroom effort to control the media narrative is just one of the fresh revelations contained in a massive 240,211-page pile of documents released Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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In the 18 months since the laws came into effect, iconic clubs, bars and dives like Spice Cellar, Q Bar, Soho, Backroom, The Flinders and Hugo's Lounge all shut their doors.
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Thaksin on Tuesday denied long-standing reports he had struck a backroom deal with the military to leave his personal and family interests untouched in exchange for a retreat from politics.
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"This bill is bad, it's dangerous and it won't work," he told reporters, adding that the bill's March 29 passage resulted from a "backroom deal" by Republicans, who control the legislature.
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"In that political structure ― all the non-truths, the bulls–t, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on ― I feel like I could not exist," Winfrey says.
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Instead, and presumably after some interesting backroom discussions, it announced that Mr Tshisekedi had won, though impartial estimates suggest he came a distant second with less than 20% of the vote.
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"By the time I was managing Prince, I'd heard all of the arguments between the artists and the managers while folding baloney in the backroom, getting their food ready," laughs Husney.
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Some of these schemes will show up on an internet bill, while others will be decided in backroom corporate warfare that leaves customers stuck in the middle and in the dark.
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Increasingly implicated in backroom deals with corporations, the party lost its luster, and in 2016 its last elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was removed from office amid a host of competing accusations.
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She said that before the backroom shifts were eliminated at her store, stocking was a side priority, and doing extensive work in the back room was never done by regular employees.
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Shoshy Ciment has a fantastic piece of reporting on how Target's decision to quietly cut overnight and backroom shifts in stores is creating massive problems in the backrooms of many stores.
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Otherwise, the bill takes on an aura of mystery, backroom dealing, and the usual confusion that comes with today's run-of-the-mill 1,000 pages or more legislative bills in Washington.
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We know that the massive rise in inequality is inextricably linked to the backroom trades of money and influence, conducted with a wink and a nod from politicians in both parties.
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Price gives a friendly and familiar hello to the bartender and asks something about her mother's jacket, and we're escorted to a small table in the empty and dim-lit backroom.
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"Backroom deals between stores and food manufacturers also shape today's supermarket," writes Gary Rivlin in his report for the Center for Science in the Public Interest (you can read it here).
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Many Americans are familiar with the filibuster from the classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, where a newly-minted U.S. senator uses the filibuster to fight against a crooked, backroom scheme.
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Two blocs of political parties, one backed by Iran and the other populist and anti-Iranian, are closely involved in backroom deals to agree on a candidate before Salih presents them.
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A handful of politicians stopped working on issues affecting the country for a contest to decide the country's direction through a backroom deal unrelated to voter demands or an actual election.
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Dreamlike, archival footage of the DTR's expeditions, playing in The Drawing Center's backroom, features a particularly memorable glimpse of one researcher drawing underwater on a zinc tablet, wearing a diving helmet.
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"The only solution is to take the final Brexit decision out of the hands of deadlocked politicians, away from the backroom deals, and give it back to the people," she said.
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The night before I'd been beaten badly at pool in a State Street bar backroom where you can still smoke cigarettes, and been offered meth by a transient sleeping in a tree.
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Both accounts were active during the election cycle—Guccifer 2.0 was also suspended once in 2016—and spread a range of documents that showed some of the backroom happenings at the DNC.
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Littlefinger played seemingly everyone, making backroom deals and befriending the most influential people so that he could one day turn use everything he knows about them as leverage to gain more control.
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"By circumventing the long established procedure for picking the city's top cop, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has loaded Chief Johnson down with baggage that reeks of backroom deals," Jackson said in a statement.
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"There is no questioning the enormous quality of Brazil's players, Tite and backroom staff," the normally cautious former World Cup winner Tostao wrote before the final two qualifiers against Bolivia and Chile.
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The piece half-fills the small backroom of the gallery, a static version of a larger piece from the artist's Gratest Hits show at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston earlier this year.
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This question can only be answered in an open and transparent process in the Senate Judiciary Committee, in contrast to the backroom and unilateral decision to deny Chief Judge Garland a hearing.
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Those backroom threats were particularly acute in 2007 and 2008, after which U.S. firm ExxonMobil Corp refused to bow to pressure but British oil giant BP and others withdrew from some blocks.
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Patron reached into a sack in the backroom and dumped several kilos of pressed hash and three bags of "shake"—cannabis that's been ground down into a fine dust—onto a table.
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In addition to overturning backroom Environmental Protection Agency rules, Kavanaugh has demonstrated his willingness to fight back against the Title II regulation of Federal Communications Commission during the Obama administration in 2011.
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What's changed is that technology has transformed what was once a backroom freehand approximation of where the lines should be into a computer-driven, street-by-street parsing of people and votes.
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" Opponents say the bill is a backroom deal brokered by lawmakers to kill mandatory labeling laws in states such as Vermont, which requires products to be clearly labeled "produced with genetic engineering.
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A college student whose job is meant to be focused on customer service on the sales floor, this employee said his location cut its backroom shifts close to the beginning of summer.
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In a backroom, a wildly original and visually gorgeous video is screened, telling the story of a tunnel leading from a Chinese dollar store in Calexico to a Chinese restaurant in Mexicali.
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"With only minimal improvements over current law, the reforms in this backroom deal fall far short of what is needed to protect our privacy rights," said Christopher Anders, ACLU deputy political director.
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"With only minimal improvements over current law, the reforms in this backroom deal fall far short of what is needed to protect our privacy rights," said Christopher Anders, ACLU deputy political director.
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Before they were finally banned in 2010, these favors, usually negotiated in backroom deals and closed-door settings, were used to buy off members to pass massive spending bills with "bipartisan" support.
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"In that political structure – all the non-truths, the bulls---, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on – I feel like I could not exist," Winfrey tells British Vogue.
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"In that political structure – all the non-truths, the bulls---, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on – I feel like I could not exist," Winfrey told British Vogue Tuesday.
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Stop & Shop, owned by Dutch parent Ahold Delhaize, is building a 12,000-square-foot fully automated fulfillment center in the backroom of a store in Windsor, Connecticut, for deliveries in the Hartford area.
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A week ago and without offering evidence, she accused Zuckerberg of making a backroom deal with Donald Trump that led to a Facebook decision to let politicians run misleading ads on the platform.
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More transparency never hurts One of the key criticisms Republicans have repeated on the campaign trail about Obamacare is that Democrats had negotiated the law in closed-door meetings and with backroom deals.
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The math for the final floor vote is murky, so expect a December filled with backroom deals, arm-twisting and declarations of momentum or growing political strength among Pelosi's allies and the insurgents.
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"Our store manager did [a] safety walk with them in the backroom and made a list of violations that need to be fixed as well as violations on the sales floor," she said.
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"In that political structure -- all the non-truths, the bullsh*t, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on -- I feel like I could not exist," Winfrey told British Vogue.
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Some of their chicks are running around a pen in the backroom of the gallery and will start producing eggs next spring in their future home at the nearby Oakland Avenue Urban Farm.
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The intelligence service has in the past been an important part of the military's influence in national affairs, and played a backroom role in politics as well as in the 1990s civil war.
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THE BACKROOM AT KINGBIRD RESTAURANT This 60-seat dining room featuring three- and four-course tasting menus is in the rear of the Kingbird restaurant in the newly renovated Watergate Hotel in Washington.
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Ron Chernow, the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Hamilton biography on which the musical is based, explains that Hamilton got his debt plan passed in a backroom deal with Jefferson and Madison.
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Your loved one, lying still and lifeless in their silk-lined coffin, has been plucked, shaved, prodded and drained by professionals in a clinical, clean backroom, away from the eyes of the mourning.
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But in our own era, when 24-hour instantaneous news shout-fests have replaced both the public square and smoke-filled backroom, professional politicians and their associates are locked in a permanent campaign.
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But Duque's promises to avoid backroom dealings could limit his ability to pass measures needed to salvage the country's investment grade credit rating and keep his promise to tighten restrictions on former FARC rebels.
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Temer, a 75-year-old attorney known as a backroom negotiator, forged an alliance with Rousseff and they rose to power with the blessing of her mentor, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Cohn was already infamous from his role in the McCarthy hearings, but he would go on to further renown as a backroom New York political wheeler-dealer who was ultimately disbarred for unethical conduct.
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By doing so, it can declutter the backroom of its stores (thereby speeding up the amount of time it takes a worker to locate certain products), and focus on keeping key items in stock.
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In the backroom, Walmart has been testing FAST Unloaders that are capable of unloading a truck of merchandise along a conveyor belt in a fraction of the time it could be done by hand.
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For a startup like Pax Labs, the type of exposure and backroom deals that can be made at a conference like CES can catapult a company from tiny startup to full-fledged industry leader.
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Despite presidential elections, analysts say, Algeria's politics has long been dominated by the ruling FLN party elites and the military, who engage in backroom maneuvering for political influence in the North African OPEC state.
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To that end, it delights in cutting from former President George W. Bush confirming that political figures do, in fact, make backroom deals to progressive darling Elizabeth Warren praising Hamilton the self-made man.
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Oh, and this is the second time Soderbergh's shot a movie on an iPhone — but instead of the grainy, handheld shots you might imagine, it's filled with carefully composed images of cushy backroom dealings.
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As the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was winding its way through Congress, a backroom deal allowed every hospital in Massachusetts to benefit from the labor rates paid by tiny, 6900-bed Nantucket Cottage Hospital.
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A backroom schism in the ANC over Zuma has burst into the open in recent weeks as his opponents seek to oust him or ensure his chosen candidate does not take over the reins.
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"When it comes to economic theory, I'm a Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren–type of girl," she'd said the evening before in the backroom of a steakhouse whose logo features a smiling cow wearing a Stetson.
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He skipped a number of traditional events, like Politics and Eggs with the state's business leaders and ribbing it up with voters at the Puritan Backroom, where presidential candidates have visited since the 1960's.
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One former store director in Ohio who oversaw around 130 employees said hours dropped at the store in the past year for several reasons, including the introduction of self-checkout and elimination of backroom shifts.
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However, it was met with fierce backlash from other NY politicians who say they were left in the dark due to backroom dealings, as well as those who fear Amazon will bring gentrification and displacement.
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After an initial rejection and "some high-stakes backroom maneuvering," as Principal Investigator Alan Stern describes it in his book about the mission, the team made it happen, and Hubble data identified several potential targets.
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There was a place I remember that had a show in the front room and a bar in the backroom, which is where the trans clientele were—pretty much straight clientele in the front room.
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In Claws, Niecy Nash stars as the leader of a South Floridian nail salon hiding shady backroom deals for powerful men who don't understand what they're up against in the ambitious manicurists working feet away.
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There was perhaps no starker illustration of this contrast than when de Blasio and Cuomo finally buried the hatchet to engineer a backroom deal to bring an Amazon headquarters to Long Island City in Queens.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - A Colombian soccer match between Junior and Deportivo Pasto was postponed on Saturday after the visitors' bus was attacked, leaving a player and two members of the backroom staff injured, the league said.
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"At the end of the day, this election is about who we are and what we can accomplish together," Mr. Pappas said in a victory speech at his family's restaurant, the Puritan Backroom, in Manchester.
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Solskjaer returned to the club with Mike Phelan, Ferguson's former assistant, and while he has led United to fifth in the current standings, he has also undertaken a major overhaul of the club's backroom staff.
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What remains to be seen is whether or not today's acts of "resistance" are only backroom policy squabbles or something more substantive, equaling or surpassing the actions of the Republicans who stood up to Nixon.
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Backroom rifts within the ANC have been thrust into the open this week after more than 100,000 emails leaked to local media allegedly showed improper dealings in lucrative government contracts by business friends of Zuma.
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Schumer the skilled legislator is the indispensable American against legislation that would greatly damage health care in America and rewrite the tax code through backroom deals involving only Republicans and their lobbyist benefactors and beneficiaries.
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In the minds of many of the voters I spoke to in Binghamton this weekend, Cuomo and Clinton are interchangeable, representing the same type of backroom politics and compromises that have continued to hurt Binghamton.
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But viewers expecting the club scene to mark the ending are treated to a special surprise: after the song is finished, Rihanna and Drake appear in a neon-lit backroom ready to perform all over again.
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So Warren's unfounded charges, for instance, that Zuckerberg is allowing misleading ads on his sites because of a backroom deal with Donald Trump, or simply because he wants politicians' cash, are likely to have lasting traction.
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"Even though the heads of political blocs wanted to reach a backroom deal rather than leave it up to a vote, they couldn't control their own MPs," said Renad Mansour, a research fellow at Chatham House.
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As he walked into Puritan Backroom Restaurant, Rubio passed by two activists with the liberal group American Bridge wearing cardboard boxes, dressed as "Marco Roboto" and "Rubio Talking Point 3000," a slam on Rubio's debate performance.
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Despite this initial refusal, though, it's difficult to escape the sense that Shevchenko's eventual taking on the role is written in the stars – a sense that his recruitment to the backroom staff in February only reaffirmed.
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"An official process to remove him speaks more positively about how the ANC operates than some backroom deal, which might involve him resigning in exchange for some kind of promise of a presidential pardon," he said.
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A representative from that particular store declined to comment on whether or not it had also ended its overnight and backroom shifts, though an employee said that the store looked like that on a regular basis.
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The 220006 presidential election swept Donald Trump into office on a wave of popular disgust with Washington – the backroom deals, the two-faced politicians, and the pervasive sense that everyone in Washington is out for themselves.
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Some of the country has faded from her pop-country sound now—there's a little background slide and banjo in the mix here and there, but it's not the backroom sound that Pageant Material strove for.
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His father is a journalist who founded The American Lawyer magazine and Court TV. He is also the author of "America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System."
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Leaders of another conservative group, the Republican Study Committee (RSC), called Tuesday for Ryan's leadership team to bring the bill to the floor, scoffing at bipartisan "backroom" negotiations happening in the Senate and among Hill leaders.
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Just as Watson researchers recognized that the keys to cancer prediction lie within oncologists' backroom shelves, a growing number of technology leaders in health and other regulated industries are realizing that they are not data-poor.
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"In that political structure ― all the non-truths, the bulls–t, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on ― I feel like I could not exist," Winfrey said in an interview with British Vogue.
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But it soon became clear to his opponents that, like his predecessors, Poroshenko was primarily intent on preserving his grip on power, making backroom deals with fellow-oligarchs and wielding influence over law enforcement and the courts.
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But the bill that passed out of committee isn't the one that the Senate will pass — and the changes that are being added didn't come through the usual amendment process, but by backroom negotiations with defecting senators.
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He estimates that the company had only twenty actual hardware servers and instead used "backroom dealings" with friends and affiliates to send out the bulk of their spam, partners who are now refusing to work with RCM.
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The gripping naval engagement that pitted Yara and Theon against Uncle Euron, leading their own Iron Fleet, was a burst of activity in an hour of TV that was otherwise occupied with backroom machinations and medical oddities.
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"The journey to activate a sales culture with knowledgeable, experienced and passionate teams who are blending service and task is well underway," the Target sorting and stocking implementation guide for backroom processes for apparel and accessories says.
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Instead of focusing on issues that matter to voters, the backroom insertion of anti-gaming language into a recent Senate appropriations bill shows they are still working to benefit mega-donors at the expense of personal freedom.
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In the windowless backroom kitchen of the Loisaida community and arts center in Lower Manhattan, Aris Mejías cradles a plastic ziplock with the last of the dark-roast coffee she brought back from her native Puerto Rico.
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But a lot has to happen for New York to turn truly blue, and the outcome depends as much on which voters turn out for an off-year local race as it does on backroom Albany dealmaking.
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Silverton Partners is similar to other venture firms in Austin in that it works closely with other investors on deals, a world away from the backroom deals and competitive board rooms on Silicon Valley's Sand Hill Road.
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Wrapped in newspaper pages and stored on a shelf in the backroom of a clinic, the lists that Reuters reviewed were labeled as beginning in October 2016, the date of a previous exodus of Rohingya from Rakhine.
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The 38-year-old, who largely avoids the public eye but engages the press and senior party figures with increasing confidence, has a backroom team of researchers analyzing census data to more effectively translate votes into seats.
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What we learned at the time was that the FBI had been doing these sort of backroom deals with the states to get access to their mugshot databases and build up the FBI's own face recognition database.
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Despite aggressive backroom dealmaking, the 27 EU states were keen to avoid any protracted and bruising dispute in public, hoping to preserving a sense of unity that has emerged - so far - in negotiations over Brexit with Britain.
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It just so happens that the 1860 convention fight was the subject of an episode of the CNN series, "Race for the the White House," which detailed the gritty, backroom fight that Lincoln quietly led from Springfield, Illinois.
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Since the time my aunt sat me down to watch the original Roots in grade school, I've seen a handful of similar scenes over and over again — harsh whippings, backroom brutality, looming plantation homes — mostly from one perspective.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - The security of next-generation 5G networks has dominated this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, with conflicting views on the risks of moving to the new technology being debated on stage and in backroom meetings.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's huge Belt and Road initiative to build a new Silk Road will respect global rules and be free of "backroom deals", the foreign minister said on Thursday, defending a key policy of President Xi Jinping's.
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"Every student is trying to say that we ... want nothing to do with India," a 19-year-old protester said in the backroom of a Pulwama restaurant, as security forces clashed with locals on the outskirts of town.
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Every day the news agenda has been driven by a torrent of leaks exposing details of the Russia investigation, the backroom intrigue in the Oval Office, and about private meetings that President Trump has conducted with other leaders.
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In Argentina, Pia Mancini and her Partido de la Red, or Net Party, used the free software DemocracyOS to thrust open the traditional backroom process of policymaking and transformed it into an online proposing, debating and voting frenzy.
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The lawsuit claims that Cuomo and Maria Vullo, the chief of the NYDFS, engaged in a "campaign of selective prosecution, backroom exhortations, and public threats" to force banks and insurance companies to end insurance services with the NRA.
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It has also coincided with a historic weakening of union power, which has pushed teachers and their representatives away from the negotiating table (with its connotations of backroom dealing) and into the clear open air of the streets.
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The former talk show host and "A Wrinkle in Time" star cited "that political structure — all the non-truths, the bullshit, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff" as the reason she was turned off to politics.
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One council member who refused to support the proposed government, Omar al-Aswad, said he had argued for a "crisis government" of just 10 members chosen on ability, but had been overruled in a late-night backroom deal.
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Her op-ed is worth reading in full, but here are some notable excerpts: Twenty-four years ago I was raped at gunpoint in the cold, dark backroom of the Payless shoe store where I was then working.
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The intrigue largely stems from the fact that if a brokered convention were to happen it would make for good political drama, as it speaks to internal divisions and factions in the party and backroom deals and bargains.
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Sure, yeah, it sure looks right now like... Because what happened last time on the Democratic side was there was a backroom consensus that we're not going to have a whole bunch of people competing for the pie.
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The biggest of the "algo" players are a handful of businesses which have emerged from the hedge fund world to rival the banks essentially by working far more efficiently and with far less regulatory baggage and backroom staff.
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"The House Republican repeal bill is an especially bad deal for New Yorkers, and this backroom amendment is nothing more than politicians putting lipstick on a pig," said Tyler Law, a spokesman for the House Democrats' campaign arm.
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The world's top oil exporter last year abandoned decades of backroom politics to lead allied countries in a war in neighbouring Yemen as part of a wider confrontation with rival Iran and is seeking to strengthen its military capabilities.
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Back when Democrats used such tactics -- also, interestingly, focused on funding Medicaid in certain states -- Republicans hit them mercilessly for it and used the taint of those backroom deals to mobilize public opinion against the law as a whole.
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Intellectually, I can tell myself these bathroom bills are the product of cynical backroom scheming: When same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in 2015, anti-LGBT hate groups needed a new scapegoat to stay relevant and keep raising money.
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Brooke Schreier Ganz, the founder of the nonprofit group Reclaim the Records, has filed a lawsuit against the New York state agency handling the records, calling into question whether it engages in backroom dealings or preferential treatment with Ancestry.
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The gift of English has made the Philippines a winner from globalisation: remittances from millions of workers abroad (many in America), and the outsourcing of call centres and other backroom tasks by big American firms, have powered the economy.
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Today, there's plenty of consensual, legal porn that falls into this genre, but the current iteration of the "casting couch" trope is largely based on an early-2000s series called "Backroom Casting Couch" by Arizona-based pornographer Eric Whitaker.
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But the 5-Star Movement won 19 of the 20 battles it took part in, appealing to voters of all political colors with its promises to beat back corruption and renounce old-style backroom deals that have defined politics.
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RAMAT GAN, Israel (Reuters) - Israel's diamond exchange is turning to digital currencies to inject new life into a marketplace long ruled by cash and backroom handshakes, but it must first persuade traditionally conservative players that the technology can work.
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"If everybody's watching, you know, all of the backroom discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least," Clinton elaborated when discussing the need for separate positions out of the public eye.
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"Once they're done working at the store for the day, they pick up the packages from the backroom, load them into their vehicle, enter the delivery addresses into the GPS on their phone and head towards home," Lore said.
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Moscow backs Assad, while Ankara has diluted its demands for the Syrian leader to urgently step down as part of what some sources say is a backroom deal aimed at dividing Syria into informal zones of regional power influence.
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"In that political structure - all the non-truths, the bullshit, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on - I feel like I could not exist," Winfrey told the magazine, where she features on its August cover.
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Mediene, one of whose nicknames was the "King of Algeria", had long played the role of political kingmaker, analysts said, influencing leadership choices in backroom tussles between civilian and military factions even while trying to maintain stability among them.
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And the intrigue largely stems from the fact that if a brokered convention were to happen, it would make for good political drama, as it speaks to internal divisions and factions in the party and backroom deals and bargains.
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But the cloud hanging over Michael Flynn right now speaks to the broad mandate of Mueller's Russia probe—and the potential for seemingly irrelevant backroom dealings that have nothing to do with the Kremlin to reshape the course of Trump's presidency.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese financial firms risk falling behind on the world stage as efforts to adopt blockchain technology that promises to save billions of dollars in backroom processing and revolutionize the finance industry are hamstrung by a dearth of specialists.
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Witnesses described the chaotic moment when they heard the gunshots, with Christina Colis telling the Riverside Press-Enterprise that she heard at least six to seven shots and hid inside a refrigerated produce backroom alongside other Costco shoppers and employees.
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"I want to be very clear, there will be no deal with any political party whatsoever," he said at a news conference, adding that he wanted to "break free from the backroom deals which have only served to block our country".
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BARCELONA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The security of next-generation 5G networks has dominated this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, with conflicting views on the risks of moving to the new technology being debated on stage and in backroom meetings.
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Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)With the political world watching to see if Marco Rubio's less-than-stellar debate reviews impact his political momentum, the Florida senator brushed off criticism in a brief interview with CNN outside the Puritan Backroom Restaurant.
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Cynics might point to the usefulness of employing a former professional 'keeper on the backroom staff, but kit men the world over will recognise the episode as demonstration of the sudden, chameleon-like demands that are placed on football's unappreciated virtuosos.
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Donna Brazile, the former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), just published a book alleging a shady backroom deal helped Hillary Clinton win the 2016 presidential nomination—reopening some of the bitter wounds of last year's bruising primary battle.
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"In that political structure — all the non-truths, the bullshit, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on — I feel like I could not exist," Winfrey said in excerpts from an interview with British Vogue released this week.
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But there is no requirement for the five to pay attention to the popularity of candidates with the General Assembly, and the winner could still be selected in a backroom Security Council deal as has been the case for seven decades.
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Shah, who has long been Modi's backroom strategist, helped run one of India's most divisive election campaigns over the past six weeks to rouse the Bharatiya Janata Party's nationalist base and overcome the loss of key state elections in December.
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And while he was reticent to attend these events at first—"I was like, it'll be a gaming convention full of sweaty basement-dwelling neckbeards, but everyone was so cool"—his aspiring political machinations and backroom deals soon took off.
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Seated in the backroom theater surrounded by plastic glitter, it is easy to feel like you yourself have walked through a tunnel under the Asian bodega to arrive in a bizarre, hyperglobalized space brimming with overconsumption, plastic products, and cultural fusion.
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Another option—entirely unlikely, but desirable—is that they're hiding out in some kind of swan hovel, the avian equivalent of a mafia backroom, sharpening their beaks, chiseling their talons, and plotting their sweet, sweet swan revenge on this asshole.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande sealed a breakthrough deal on the European Union's last joint budget in 2013, negotiating in a backroom of a Paris stadium where Germany and France were facing off in a friendly soccer game.
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Davos is famous for its backroom meetings as well as the inevitable spontaneous encounters that occur when attendees are crowded into an Alpine conference center; it's not unreasonable to assume that these discussions could solidify relationships out of the public eye.
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"This backroom stitch-up after days of talks is grotesque, it satisfies no one but party power games," Ska Keller, co-leader of the Greens in parliament, said after days of wrangling among EU leaders over names for the biggest posts.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Mohammad Dahlan, who played a key backroom role in a major new effort for Palestinian unity, has said a two-state peace agreement with Israel was impossible and healing wounds from a civil war that split Palestine was now a priority.
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There were no secret backroom agreements at the Group of 20 (G-20) meeting in Shanghai to manage the exchange rate between the dollar and renminbi, the deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) told CNBC, rebuffing reports of a deal.
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But in the hallways of the UN General Assembly, where 85033 governments, most of whom are not rights-respecting democracies, are used to playing politics and securing votes through backroom deals, Venezuela, which presides over the Non-Aligned Movement, still holds some sway.
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We're in the backroom of the Grey Lady oyster bar and restaurant on the Lower East Side, a cozy space outfitted with string lights, nautical paraphernalia, and the highlight: a wood-paneled bar with six kinds of wine, free for the taking.
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A better backroom operator than campaigning politician, he slyly egged on the Jewish settler movement in the West Bank after 1967, at a time when it was still on the fringes of Israeli politics; the settlements have stymied peace efforts ever since.
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At dinner parties in plush Brasilia residences and in backroom meetings in Congress, Temer's coalition partners and members of his own party are seeking agreement on a caretaker to replace the scandal-plagued president, who they see as too damaged to govern.
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It appears that backroom dealings between automakers and the office of the Secretary factored prominently into today's press conference, considering that Tesla just enabled self-parking several days ago — before Foxx's announcement, and well after BMW decided not to bring the technology stateside.
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At that point, as the theory goes, rule changes, political horse-trading and backroom machinations could pull the nomination away from Trump the front-runner and hand it to one of his rivals, or even some outsider brought in by the GOP elites.
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All of the backroom dealing has tinkered around the edges of a House Republican consensus that it is good policy to finance a massive tax cut for the rich with savage cuts to Medicaid and to premium subsidies for working class people.
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Without enough people whose jobs were dedicated to clearing away deliveries, boxes of merchandise piled up in the backroom, she said, adding that the store often stacked thousands of pieces of freight in piles that could be up to eight feet tall.
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They say the backroom deal is a poor substitute for the Right to Know Act, which they said was more stringent than Ms. Mark-Viverito's compromise and applied to far more of the everyday encounters that officers have with civilians on the street.
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All told, there's a tremendous appetite and an increasingly robust infrastructure for strong investigative journalism that ferrets out the most salacious secrets of Silicon Valley, from its invisible algorithms to its data-sharing partnerships to its cutthroat personalities to its backroom politics.
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Target has cut overnight and backroom shifts in stores across the country — and some daytime workers say they are being forced to pick up the slack as they try to keep up with a workload that they did not originally sign up for.
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Four years ago I wrote a piece warning that the move to digital assistants would mean that a lot more of what we see "online" (if that term even applies to talking to a smart speaker) would be determined by backroom deals.
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He disputes the idea of the lone genius artist working in a backroom on masterpieces, and instead embraces the notion that the artistic process is much more analogous to filmmaking, where many teams of people are required to create a single work.
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You build your order on a smartphone app or kiosk, send it to a work station (which, according to Subway, may be in the backroom) and then a faceless human slaps together the ingredients without you, leaving you to pick it up at the counter.
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The last four Italian prime ministers took office thanks to backroom deals rather than ballot-box victories and repeated efforts to reform the electoral law that would allow for the swift formation of a government have failed to come up with a winning formula.
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The prime minister is also suspected of a backroom deal in which he offered to limit the distribution of Israel Hayom (a free sheet financed by Sheldon Adelson, an American billionaire and supporter) in exchange for favourable coverage in a newspaper owned by Arnon Mozes.
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Now that voting is over and Bernie Sanders has all but endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, the only drama left in the once sort-of contentious Democratic primary is of the backroom variety: Sanders has staked his revolution on the writing of the party's platform.
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Ultimately, Brown's impassioned statements ("This is the most important vote of your life," he told lawmakers last week) and backroom deals managed to bring together a broad coalition of progressives, moderates, and conservatives to achieve a supermajority in both the Senate and the Assembly.
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This meant, in principle, that for the first time, the people who chose the parties' presidential candidates would neither be controlled by party leaders nor free to make backroom deals at the convention; rather, they would faithfully reflect the will of their states' primary voters.
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Hard as it may be to believe, those cowboys riding across the plains in the days of Billy the Kid and Butch Cassidy were just as likely to be found in a hazy backroom opium den as pounding a whiskey at the saloon bar.
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He's the Black Madonna of candidates, cutting through the cynicism that is appropriate for a system that is almost entirely bankrupt with backroom deals and influence and allowing you to believe that good ideas, integrity, and hard work can pay off with persistence over time.
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Once these backroom deals have been concluded, commissioners-designate face their highest hurdle: a three-hour hearing at the European Parliament, where they can expect to be interrogated not only on the substance of their portfolio but also on any skeletons in their political closets.
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" Matt Whitworth, the executive producer and creator of the series, said he initially reached out to both GOP and Democratic offices when he started the project, pitching lawmakers on the idea of showing the "private sort of backroom grumblings between rank-and-file members.
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Cuomo, NYDFS and its chief, Maria Vullo, whom the NRA also named as a defendant, engaged in a "campaign of selective prosecution, backroom exhortations, and public threats" to coerce banks and insurance companies to withhold services from the NRA, the group said in the suit.
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Maura Sullivan, a former Marine and Veterans Administration official, and Chris Pappas, a New Hampshire Executive Council member whose family co-owns the Puritan Backroom restaurant in Manchester, a well-known stop on the presidential campaign trail, are also running for the Democratic nomination.
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That is, until Donald Trump struck some kind of backroom deal with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to lift the penalties in exchange for around $1.7 billion in fines, a total shuffle of its senior management, and a guarantee to allow unannounced site visits by US officials.
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Having paid close attention to the coaching methods of Cruyff for the best part of a decade, Koeman eventually made the transition from pitch to dugout by joining fellow Cruyffians Johan Neeskins and Frank Rijkaard as part of Hiddink's backroom team for the 210 World Cup.
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During Stone's fall trial last year, Zelinsky excoriated the political consultant as a shadowy backroom operator working on behalf of the Trump campaign to try to coordinate with WikiLeaks, the radical transparency group that leaked emails hacked from Democrats by Russian operatives during the 2016 race.
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The result will undercut Tshisekedi's ability to deliver on campaign promises to make a break with the 403-year Kabila era and fuel suspicion that his victory, announced on Thursday, came through a backroom deal that will preserve Kabila's influence over important ministries and the security forces.
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This included 8.4 million pounds in payouts to previous team manager Louis van Gaal and his backroom staff and a charge of 2.53 million on the fall in "carrying value of a player no longer considered to be a member of the first team playing squad".
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Juncker, 63, has worked in politics all his life, most of it at the top table of EU backroom bargaining as finance minister and prime minister of Luxembourg; Trump, the real estate baron and reality TV star, held no office before his extraordinary election in 2016.
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Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE of Nevada, who used procedural loopholes and backroom tactics to silence the minority.
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Seven years ago, Republicans were complaining about Obamacare negotiations -- an imperfect comparison, considering Democrats held a number of bipartisan hearings and markups, a White House summit and President Barack Obama even addressed the GOP caucus -- often tweeting their disgust at what they said was backroom deal-making.
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He must've been new to trading, new to junk, convinced his backroom buddies that he'd go down to the local resstop, see what the situation on the ground was like, as if flesh moves mattered at all anymore, when he was really just hoping to fucking score.
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The daughter of a former congressman and mayor of Baltimore, she was born into the machine politics of the Democratic Party and has the gift of a ward boss who knows how to trade favors and cut backroom deals in order to hold a coalition together.
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Some say it's their personality types: Cuomo, the Frank Underwoodian backroom dealer from Queens who always seems to talk like you got a problem with him, would never mesh well with de Blasio, the gentle giant from Brooklyn whose nerdy family breaks into spontaneous dance routines.
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Atop the bumper stickers on the wall hang framed photos of artists who have graced The Joynt's modest backroom stage: Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Odetta, Queen Ida, McCoy Tyner, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Hutcherson, Bill Evans, John Lee Hooker, Loudon Wainwright III, and dozens of other legends.
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But it's also about so much more: empire, art, fate, Cortés and La Malinche and Moctezuma, the brutal founding of what would become modern-day Mexico, aristocracy, the backroom dealings of the Roman Catholic Church and the European court, and balls, for both tennis and reproduction.
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Women in the Senate, long a male-dominated backroom-cigar sort of place, have suffered their share of professional reckonings: Although the climate is slowly improving, only 23 senators are women, and the body only recently, and with considerable delay, created a modernized sexual harassment policy.
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Its cannabis products, including dope suppositories and intimate oils, as well as Sacred Dirty Chai truffles and a vast array of weed strains (named Karma Bitch, Ghost Trainwreck Haze and so forth) are sold from a backroom, which the shopper must provide a proof of identity to access.
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When Ms. Nahles stepped down, the remaining leadership declared that her successor would be chosen not by the usual backroom dealings, but by a primary, open to all members, presented in a nationwide roadshow, including the September presentation in Berlin and culminating in a vote concluding this Friday.
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So there's a whole lot of backroom dealing and congressional intrigue happening in addition to the threat of having bugs make a buffet of your brain; it's a lot for anyone to handle, let alone a half-drawn character whose defining characteristic is that she made a documentary once.
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Senate Republicans are poised to approve a measure that would help pass Trump's tax reforms, a special report lifts the lid on a backroom battle threatening a $21 million cryptocurrency venture and thirty years on from the 22 stock market crash, cautious traders wonder if it could happen again.
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Baum interviewed Ehrlichman and others for his 1996 book "Smoke and Mirrors," but said he left out the Ehrlichman comment from the book because it did not fit the narrative style focused on putting the readers in the middle of the backroom discussions themselves, without input from the author.
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I'd like to trust that none of these companies are picking favorites based on backroom deals (the kind of paid placement that led people to distrust the AltaVista search engine 15 years ago), but I'd much rather just know how Siri and Alexa and Cortana make those choices.
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Six months ago, based on the sheer strength of his fledgling streetwear-based label, he was named the artistic director of Balenciaga, the century-old French house, in a twist that shocked the industry given Gvasalia's distinct lack of star power — similar to Michele's out-of-the-backroom appointment.
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The accusations touch on Netanyahu's alleged role in two separate cases: one in which he and his wife are accused of taking lavish gifts in exchange for political favors, and another in which he is suspected of backroom dealings to ensure more favorable coverage in an Israeli newspaper.
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Business Insider spoke with five Target employees in locations across the US. Most said that the elimination of overnight and backroom shifts has meant that they are picking up the slack and completing more tasks than they can reasonably handle in their shifts to make up for it.
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Ward's new role as economic special advisor is an influential backroom position in British politics at a time when Hammond is considering how much to cushion the economic shock of June's vote to leave the EU, and how far to protect Britain's financial services sector in upcoming EU talks.
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The backroom scramble comes as President Donald Trump spoke with a top-ranking Taliban official by phone on Tuesday — a first for a U.S. president and a sign of the extraordinary political risks he's been willing to endure to engineer a campaign-season exit from America's longest war.
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In a backroom deal with Minority Leader Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE (D-N.
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For years, "the US has provided the context, direction, and goal of a political process toward a two-state outcome, that goal began to diminish under Netanyahu and has collapsed under Trump," says Daniel Seidemann, director of the Israeli nonprofit Terrestrial Jerusalem and a frequent backroom adviser to diplomats.
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For the past year, Trump's lawyers pursued a two-pronged approach that relied on public attacks by Giuliani on Mueller's "witch hunt" on cable TV news alongside backroom negotiations with Mueller's team led by the Raskins, according to two sources familiar with the strategy who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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In the nearly three-hour run time, theatergoers follow Arnold from nights at a backroom bar (leading to some of the funniest physical comedy I've seen recently) to weekends away with his ex, to —finally — the real wallop of emotion: a visit from his mother (the perfect and powerful Mercedes Ruehl).
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Backroom jockeying for power among politicians unknown to most of the Union's half-billion citizens would also not enhance the reputation of institutions fighting to reverse the anti-EU, nationalist surge seen in Britain's June referendum and set to play a big role in German, French and Dutch elections in 2017.
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In what felt like a very odd cameo for Clinton, the former president largely meandered through an hour-long conversation about his new James Patterson book, gun regulation, backroom stories regarding the Oslo Treaty and a couple of loosely connected points about the cryptocurrency space tossed in there for the audience.
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The leaked brochure, which had never been published before, not only exposes Aglaya's questionable services, but offers a unique glimpse into the shadowy backroom dealings between hacking contractors, infosecurity middlemen, and governments around the world which are rushing to boost their surveillance and hacking capabilities as their targets go online.
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An investigation commenced by a Democratic president and ended by a Republican president would invite unwelcome politics into antitrust enforcement — making the public think that the law is at the whim of the administration and inviting shady backroom deals to support candidates who will make corporations' legal problems go away.
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The video, which also shows Widodo dressed in a red zip-up jacket and jeans chatting about family life and the pressures of running the world's third-largest democracy, was the brainchild of a backroom team that has become a vital part of his campaign for re-election on April 17.
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Second, the current National Unity Government (NUG)'s legitimacy is also questioned by some of the population, in part because of its brokered backroom birth but also because it is currently beset by internal divisions and factions that are undermining its ability to coordinate coherent policies, including against the Taliban.
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In an interview with C-SPAN's Steve Scully at the network's headquarters in Washington, GOP lawyer Ben Ginsberg described a scene in which delegates would be screaming over one another to be heard from the floor, while backroom deals would be negotiated to seal the nomination for one of the candidates.
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For Trudeau, the polls are not computing in his favor—and in an election where young voters will have a disproportionate share of the votes, it is hard to see how Trudeau & Co. can shed the impression of backroom sleaze, business-as-usual politics by election day on October 21.
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The Senate showdown follows months of backroom talks over how to address those recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a large group of people brought to the US illegally when they were children who were granted the ability to stay in the country under the Obama-era policy.
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Early on in the film, Qiao is quickly established as a forthright, self-assured presence in this world: we see her slinking around and roughhousing in the parlor's backroom with Bin's cronies, and, later, ordering these same men to drink a cup of spiked punch before gulping one down alongside them.
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Yes, Cuomo's support signaled a huge shift in the debate, but the halls of power in state legislatures are really labyrinths, and the game of politics is convoluted and full of feints and plays for leverage and backroom dealings, so who were we to say with any confidence what Cuomo's move really meant?
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It's obvious that the young paintballers in the centre idolize him for his heroism and sacrifice, they stare with intrigue, as though being in his presence might encourage, in them, a die-hard will to survive In the backroom, he has a micro-model of the paintball arena set on a table.
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But Powell misses the point out of the gate: nobody is predicting that commerce is going to disappear, or that internet giants like Amazon won't be able to afford whatever byzantine backroom deals the ISPs come up with that shave more money off the bottom lines of companies that use the network.
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A worker at an Iowa Target said that when modernization started in her store around May, it threw her store into a "chaotic panic" as she and her coworkers became responsible for a variety of tasks in their area — such as price changes, shelf setups, cleaning, stocking, and pulling items from the backroom.
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Weber and his parliamentary allies will argue strongly that it is that kind of backroom carve-up which is turning Europeans off the EU. In reply, national leaders may argue that they have stronger democratic mandates to govern than a parliament for which in 2014 only 43 percent of voters cast a ballot.
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Lewis B. Oliver Jr., the lawyer representing Reclaim the Records in the case in Albany, told BuzzFeed News if they win the suit and communication between the DOH and Ancestry shows there was some sort of backroom deal or improper handling of the records request, the DOH employee could be subject to some internal reprimands.
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In the snarling faces of southern Sheriffs and their just-deputized friends, in the quiet dignity of the black and white allies who suffered beating after beating, in the backroom arguments about how far the movement should push things, you can see the divisions and the debates that still animate politics in America today.
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The Sixth Empire essentially scoops up players who otherwise might not know where else to turn, and gives them a chance to get back on their feet—a pretty shocking act of philanthropy from a man who is also in the business of assassinating empresses and executing backroom deals at various EVE fan events.
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It's not just about creating jobs or pulling a backroom deal in congress to keep a factory open in your respective congressional district, it's about removing government from interfering with the free market and using the government to instead create and maintain a regulatory and tax environment in which private job-creators can prosper.
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Photo: Getty ImagesUber founder Travis Kalanick, who was forced out of his CEO role last year amid widening scandals about its toxic work culture, legal troubles, and a video of him screaming at a bankrupt driver, seems an awful lot like he's finally admitting defeat in the unending slew of backroom drama that plagued the company in his wake.
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Credited for cinematography and film editing under the aliases Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard, Soderbergh's camera brings the backroom deals in swanky, high-rise bars to life in all their mood-lit, buttery leather seats glory, in stark contrast to the meetings in bland corporate offices, or even the sharp lighting of a community basketball court.
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If lawmakers reject von der Leyen, who was nominated by EU leaders on July 2 in what some branded a backroom deal, it would be another reputational blow for the bloc, rocked in the last decade by the euro zone debt crisis, Britain's decision to leave and the rise of far-right and far-left eurosceptic parties.
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Although the rules for delegate selection are extremely complicated, and vary from state to state, there have been increasing suggestions that party insiders might engage in backroom machinations to try to thwart Trump — either by leaning on state-level delegates to support other candidates or perhaps by tweaking the rules as the Republican National Convention opens in Cleveland.
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Allied with longtime local residents led by Father Gerard LaMountain of Most Holy Crucifix Church on Broome Street, Jacobs and the other activists thwarted the project, though it kept rising from the grave throughout the decade, with Moses as a kind of smoke-filled backroom Dracula, until Mayor John Lindsay drove a stake through his heart, firing him in 21975.
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One of Perry's co-writers, Frank Yablans, was both the film's producer and a former studio head; scenes of backroom intrigue between Crawford and the head of M-G-M, Louis B. Mayer (played by the insinuating character actor Howard Da Silva)—in which Mayer flaunts his absolute rule with a velvet bonhomie—have a quietly dreadful ring of authenticity.
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"This shady backroom deal where a small group of party insiders makes a big decision that stops thousands of voters from participating in the process appears to violate party rules and is precisely the kind of thing that turns people off to politics," Rob Godfrey, a former state Republican Party communications director and a former top adviser to former South Carolina Gov.
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"This shady backroom deal where a small group of party insiders makes a big decision that stops thousands of voters from participating in the process appears to violate party rules and is precisely the kind of thing that turns people off to politics," said Rob Godfrey, a former state Republican Party communications director and a former top adviser to former South Carolina Gov.
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Yet, as I say, he was -- and is -- not alone in giving credence to stories that Clinton -- the former first lady, US senator, secretary of state, and presidential candidate -- partnered with her campaign chairman, the former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and counselor to President Barack Obama, in a child sex trafficking enterprise headquartered in the backroom of a DC pizza parlor.
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Some Republicans who view Trump skeptically smelled a rat, saying the deal was likely in the works for weeks and that he decided to endorse Trump "This was obviously a backroom deal they negotiated 2-3 weeks ago," said GOP strategist Ford O'Connell, who argued that the timing of the endorsement was aimed at undercutting momentum Rubio had coming out of Thursday night's debate.
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"As part of this, The FA is reviewing what the minimum match-based suspension for proven cases of discrimination should be to ensure the deterrent in place is appropriate and effective," the FA said in a statement here The FA also revealed it had given match officials the authority to show managers and backroom staff yellow and red cards, representing cautions and dismissals, respectively.
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From the apparent backroom deals with individual companies, to pushing the limits of anti-nepotism laws, to installing superrich and inexperienced political allies in his Cabinet, Trump's transition has set the stage for a sharp turn away from the rules and norms that have long defined how the US economy—and, in turn, the US itself—has been run for a half-century or more.
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From the apparent backroom deals with individual companies, to pushing the limits of anti-nepotism laws, to installing superrich and inexperienced political allies in his Cabinet, Trump's transition has set the stage for a sharp turn away from the rules and norms that have long defined how the U.S. economy — and, in turn, the U.S. itself — has been run for a half-century or more.
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I won't belabor the point, because it is surely topmost in many an American's mind that cash funneled through Super PACs and offshore accounts, backroom deals and stock trades, favors for lobbyists and corporate "donators" and 20 other forms of pay-for-play in Washington are more of a clear and present danger than a handful of Russian operatives ineffectually obscuring peanuts payments for hosting fees and bribes.
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"Oh Bejeweled Realm" satirizes the pretensions of both Iran's Westernizing regime and its middle-class intellectuals: Tomorrow I can, In the backroom of Khachick's shop, Snort a few grams of some of the purest stuff, Swill a few glasses of mixed-up Pepsi-Cola, Give out a few oh Gods, and Hallelujahs, haw-haws, aha-aha-aha, And formally join the ranks of high-minded thinkers and an asinine Enlightenment.
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And if you look at the I.G. report, Sean, and you look at what happened today on Capitol Hill and how he evaded and avoided questions, I tell you, Gregg is 100 percent right, I&aposve spoken to similar sources who have been those backroom meetings with Rod Rosenstein - - HANNITY: By the way, I spoke to one person, too, that was personally the victim of a temper tantrum, a direct -- CARTER: Absolutely.
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In moments of downtime, he asked me a few questions, and an arsenal of my own memories and stories came spewing out like shaken Coca-Cola: learning how to drive; losing dogs; Friday night football games; having existential crises about what life was supposed to be while I restocked candles in the backroom of the Anthropologie where I worked after college; moving back in with Mom and Dad only to move out a few months later to go to New York.
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A senior lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London, he has written nonfiction books on such diverse topics as polar exploration ("I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination"), reading and character formation ("The Child That Books Built"), rocket science and computer technology ("Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin"), the Soviet Union in the mid-20th century ("Red Plenty"), the arguments for religious faith ("Unapologetic"), and a novel that takes place in 18th-century New York ("Golden Hill").
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"Primaries is where we find the next generation of leadership, and it's where people cut their teeth on this system, and the idea that we're only going to support people that have been cherry-picked by a dark, backroom process is so anti-democratic with a small d and the big D." Asked whether she would want to talk to Pelosi about the policy, Ocasio-Cortez said, "I hope so, I hope so," but deferred to the cochairs of the Progressive Caucus on negotiations.
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