There was an international network of players and fixers, he said, with many of the fixers — himself included — having played tennis on some professional level.
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Do fixers like Mr Calil do anything useful for Africa?
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To squeeze the fixers, governments need to do two things.
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It's essential to have nitrogen fixers to replace those nutrients.
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If you haven't watched Tattoo Fixers before, you're missing out.
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Fixers are generally easy to find on sites like Yelp.
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The MGM "fixers," dispatched to clean up the messes of
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The rest was allocated for local fixers and location fees.
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More experienced raisers with reputations as fixers are brought in.
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The days of fixers and fan mag–arranged marriages were over.
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And as new sports gain popularity, the fixers will move in.
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness.
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These Fixers are not paid professionals; they do this for fun.
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Several blamed fixers for whipping up a frenzy of unsustainable deals.
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Political fixers will try to funnel money through houses of worship.
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They have lately acted as "fixers" of sorts for Giuliani in Ukraine.
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Britain's nuclear industry relies on imported welders, steel fixers and pipe fitters.
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Fixers need deep, liquid betting markets to profit from their crooked bets.
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Immediately the problem draws other Fixers and they cluster around the device.
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With hands tied by the DMCA, fixers are creating entirely new manuals.
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Then, what counts as disaster in the world of bug-fixers struck.
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But it's hard to fight one's nature, and Democrats instinctually are fixers.
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Both are fixers who bend every rule they can get away with.
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They are Sando's fixers, farm managers, production coördinators, and fellow bean researchers.
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In politics, as in life, there are Fixers and there are Punishers.
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You will find no fixers clinging to a single storyline in his films.
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In short, the pre-match betting market isn't where most match-fixers operate.
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LASZLO BIRINYI: I read a new book by Michael Thomas called The Fixers.
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Even in team sports, fixers usually need to enlist just a single athlete.
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Then they are treated with fixers and stains, every step involving more waiting.
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The fixers ignoring "Warranty Void if Removed" labels to repair their own gadgets.
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These are fixers who have been trained by Apple and carry original parts.
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Only small fry stood trial, a small set of fixers and assistant coaches.
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Right to repair proponents viewed this as hostile to independent fixers and customers.
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The more that wagering grows, the more appealing it could become to fixers.
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It was easier and expeditious in some ways to use these illegal fixers.
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Entrepreneurs like yoga teachers are running businesses and retreats and making money on Fixers.
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Back at the Fixers Collective meeting the Monday before Thanksgiving, the space was packed.
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The score was ironic: a ten-point loss was exactly what the fixers wanted.
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"Because women have it in their heads that they're the fixers," Mr. Savage said.
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The tattoo led to his appearance on "Tattoo Fixers," a British reality television series.
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Should they stand back and stop acting as chauffeurs, planners and all-around fixers?
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Kate Sopko: The Fixers continues at SPACES (2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland) through July 21.
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For "light fixers," HGTV show enthusiasts are going to be included in the target demographic.
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The lives of my interpreters, fixers and everyone who helped us along the way mattered.
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Gambling with skins happens on unregulated sites, making it easier for fixers to avoid detection.
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Closing down Iran's paths to nuclear weapons remains at the heart of the Fixers' efforts.
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Some of them make their living as tour guides, or translators or fixers for journalists.
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Men were fixers of things, sportsmen, smokers, fast car drivers and womanizers, rugged and confident.
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Monnet was a pragmatist, as fixers must be, but he also had a visionary streak.
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He seems to regard his cabinet as "fixers," carrying out his wishes, legal or not.
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"One of the traditional roles of the yakuza was to serve as fixers," said Milhaupt.
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On February 10th, a court sentenced one of the party's former low-level fixers for corruption.
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I hugged him, said thank you, and left with a whole new appreciation of fixers worldwide.
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If the fixers are allowed to run the show, it will cease to be worth watching.
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The Fixers spend the next fifteen minutes attempting to replicate their earlier success, to no avail.
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Fixers shine a light on problems or injustices and work to find ways to resolve them.
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" He describes another technique that featured in allegations about Ed Buck's actions — the use of "fixers.
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"There is enough money for potential match-fixers to invest into e-sport," he told Reuters.
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Most of the fixers Sharkevich knew were careless, chasing their next payment, but Voronenkov was ambitious.
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Just as the journalists did in the hijacking heydays, Hoek asked fixers to arrange pirates for him.
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For "heavier fixers," interested parties would likely include veteran flippers, investors, and institutional buyers with deep pockets.
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These days Western fixers must compete with rivals from China and other countries with less fussy rules.
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I had two guys who work in the Philippines as kind of local fixers for fraud investigators.
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According to Bourdain, these drivers and fixers controlled what the film crew could shoot in the country.
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Wynn Levy, 55, a member of the Fixers Collective, had an iHome dissected and spread before him.
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Here's the way every Tattoo Fixers episode plays out: A person walks into a makeshift tattoo studio.
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Punishers, too, are about spotlighting problems, a skill at which they may excel even more than Fixers.
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He has a small crew—two producers and a few cameramen—who recruit local fixers and grips.
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What's happening: Despite the rise of the bias-blockers in 2019, the bias-fixers remain the orthodoxy.
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Conway found mentors in political fixers such as Charlie Black, a partner in Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly.
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A woman who went on Tattoo Fixers to improve her ink was sadly stuck with another permanent mistake.
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Before the contest, party fixers loudly play down their chances, only to declare the result a triumph afterwards.
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The video caught the attention of Dr. Tijion Esho, who regularly appears on E4's "Body Fixers" show.
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That came after the woman, a table tennis player, blew the whistle herself after being approached by fixers.
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In it, you play a series of intergalactic fixers who take on risky missions across a tumultuous nebula.
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But if the Vegas fixers have any say in the matter, Bran will become the Westerosi weirdo in chief.
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AMONG Africa's many foreign fixers and mining tycoons, few are more colourful than Dan Gertler, an Israeli diamond trader.
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Innocent people don&apost need fixers, innocent people fix things themselves by just shooting straight and telling the truth.
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He has to work with locals in Egypt, drivers and fixers, that may work for the government's Interior Ministry.
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Novak Djokovic has since come forward to reveal that he has been approached by match fixers during his career.
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But this time, the site was publishing names and contact details for 5,412 journalists, drivers, fixers, soundmen and translators.
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Children of alcoholics are often high-functioning "fixers," with a deep well of anxiety they hide from the world.
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Sometimes you get them by talking to fixers, who find mercenaries like V to come in and solve problems.
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Meanwhile, Ronaldo retained a team of "fixers" that the lawsuit calls "personal reputation protection specialists" and are unnamed defendants.
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The dusty former ghost town is brimming with non-indigenous fixers offering tourists peyote and a place to trip.
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Some "visitors" were described as taking part in "hits," or missions to kill-or-capture AQAP fixers and facilitators.
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While operations to capture fixers were valuable for intelligence, they could not counter the growing threat posed by AQAP.
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Former US, British, and Yemeni officials all told VICE News that these strikes targeted AQAPs moneymen, couriers, and fixers.
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In 2005, when international reporters poured into Beirut after the assassination of the prime minister, fixers were in short supply.
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" We reached out to E4 and Tattoo Fixers and a rep said, "Over a million people regularly enjoy the show.
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CBT can also help the people who are trying too hard to fall asleep, the "fixers," as Epsie calls them.
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Europe has mimicked the American policy of offering immunity to firms that rat on their fellow price-fixers, for instance.
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The scale of Football Leaks—its totalizing nature—has brought about a novel anxiety among the sport's fixers and dealers.
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Here we meet a few of these brave "fixers, reporters, and photographers" who feel it's their duty to document these events.
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Some of the cases that have come to light were uncovered by police investigating racketeering, not sports officials going after fixers.
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The Coalition was narrowly focused on helping to pass legislation, but fixers felt that repair needed more than just a campaign.
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The looming penalty provides the latest evidence that policing price-fixers, once an enforcement backwater, has become a priority for trustbusters.
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Now he works for the Fixers Collective, a social club in New York that repairs aging devices to extend their lives.
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Most countries that play top-level cricket lack specific laws against match-fixing, which can make it harder to prosecute fixers.
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On one side are the bias-fixers, who believe the systems can be purged of prejudice with a bit more math.
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They're not proof of match-fixing, but they're a window into how match-fixers might manipulate live betting odds to maximize profit.
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If you want to build apartments, you better hire lawyers and "fixers" to keep you on the right side of the rules.
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This decision â€" to allow cheaters but not match fixers to compete â€" has the Counter-Strike community scratching its collective head.
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Little time or money is devoted to educating athletes about fixers' methods, or to monitoring wagers to spot the suspicious betting patterns.
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If honest punters turn to legal bookmakers, fixers will follow, and authorities will find it easier to spot them at their work.
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Thanks to the skills she learned from fixers, she has repaired many devices, including a flat-screen TV and an HVAC unit.
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Crucially, any player on baseball's "ineligible list" cannot be nominated: This includes some old-time game fixers along with Jackson and Rose.
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They are crisis managers after all, not fixers, and you don't need to hire someone and strategize how to tell the truth.
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He will also have to identify the people involved in those communications and name the "fixers" who handled accusations of sexual misconduct.
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Outsize personalities like Steve Bannon, fixers like first chief of staff Reince Priebus and retainers like Sean Spicer are all long gone.
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That President Trump may have lost his "fixer," Michael Cohen, but he has many more "fixers" among the G.O.P. members of Congress.
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Trump started out as an anti-insider and an anti-fixer, and so you can see why insider fixers have grown concerned.
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"Fixers" play a variety of roles for news crews covering international stories — translation skills, local connections, travel tips, production support, and other services.
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With President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen under investigation, the president is reportedly getting help from another of his longtime fixers: Marc Kasowitz.
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They're nitrogen fixers, playing an important role in the Mallee region where the top soil is very denuded and the nutrients are depleted.
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If children are not being sent off or given away to "fixers," then they are forced into prostitution or drug trafficking to survive.
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Cruise, as usual, plays Ethan Hunt, the sharp end of the I.M.F., with Benji (Simon Pegg) and Luther (Ving Rhames) as his fixers.
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"People with high levels of empathy, people who over-give, people who are fixers, they tend to be in such relationships," she said.
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Regulated sports gambling in New Jersey is unlikely to lead to a new generation of high-powered match fixers in the United States.
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For a decade, Mr. Cohen served as one of Mr. Trump's most trusted fixers, aggressively taking on journalists, opposing lawyers and business adversaries.
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We need help from fixers everywhere, medical professionals, and biomedical technicians to make sure this is as robust, relevant, and useful as possible.
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The Afghan government closed this haunt for journalists, diplomats, fixers and shady characters a few years ago after an increase in attacks on foreigners.
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Players are recruited by fixers in a manner that Ronnie Flanagan, the chairman of the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit, describes as "grooming".
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While specialized bacteria called "nitrogen fixers" eventually figured out how to break N2 and turn it into ammonia (NH4), early biology lacked this ability.
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"This impacts everybody from folks like the Fixers Collective, to us, to small cellphone repair shops, even farmers trying to repair tractors," Wiens said.
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The suit alleges he shamed her by calling her a "whore" and threatened her with the help of "fixers" who tried to silence her.
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Small businesses are unique because they do not have access to the tax lawyers, lobbyists, and fixers of their wealthier and better connected counterparts.
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Hawkins was questioned by the New York City authorities about possible connections with one of the fixers, but he was never accused of wrongdoing.
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They acted as fixers for multinational companies, like the German software giant SAP, which paid them kickbacks in return for government business, documents show.
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During the mid-1990s, the golden age for cricket fixers, virtually all betting in cricket was concentrated on matches involving the nine leading nations.
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Over the decades, lobbying has evolved from a niche trade of fixers and gatekeepers to a sleek, vertically integrated, $3-billion-a-year industry.
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In the episode, viewers see Bourdain's cameramen worrying about getting home, and the local fixers and producers worrying about the safety of loved ones.
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Parnas and his colleague Igor Fruman ended up serving as Giuliani's "fixers" in his search for dirt that would help Trump politically in Ukraine.
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Each day at WeWork HQ, there are two different groups of staffers: Company employees, and a team of on-site fixers from SoftBank Group.
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Burton's lawyer, Michael Avenatti, says, "Carrey and his 'fixers' need to stop lying," and he stands by his previous statements about Jim and Cathriona.
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And for fixers that were once "ultra-lux," the people interested will be those seeking legacy and prestige in historic or trophy properties, Chan said.
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This breakthrough, then, could be an important weapon for DIY fixers for years to come: "Apple isn't going to move away from this," Hartt said.
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According to E. J. Fleming's "The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling and the MGM Publicity Machine" and other sources, his was an all-purpose job.
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"Obviously, I commend Valve for taking action against match-fixers to help ensure that we keep the sport clean," said eSports game analyst, Richard Lewis.
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Rather, most countries use ad hoc regulations, or existing fraud regulations to go after fixers, which can make things far more complicated for law enforcement.
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In three words, this is essentially the response from some parts of the industry to the TV show Tattoo Fixers, now in its second season.
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"There's always a strong response from the tattooing industry to tattoo shows," explains Paul Taylor, the tattoo artist behind the "Fuck Tattoo Fixers" T-shirts.
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But a small marketplace of fixers (mostly, so far, middlewomen) are starting businesses meant to simplify the ancillary processes associated with a marital break-up.
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After Hurricane Irma ravaged Key West, Jamil Gonzalez and Judd Alison, two local film fixers and location scouts, watched as sailboats sank into the water.
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"Mind Fixers" is a shot at telling a "better, more honest" story of psychiatry's troubled past in order to help us learn from our mistakes.
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The list of Afghan and Pakistani individuals he encounters — drivers, "fixers," office managers, friends of friends — grows so extended that the reader becomes increasingly confused.
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Earlier this year, journalists with Britain's Channel 4 posed as fixers for a wealthy Sri Lankan client while claiming they hoped to influence the country's elections.
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We tell people they are making some difference, we are the people of work, help working men and women, the makers and fixers who create society.
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In the end, the strategy of emboldening birthers and doomsayers while championing a farm team of clean-cut fixers was destroyed by its own internal contradictions.
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Withholding certification fits that bill as an initial step for the Fixers because it declares that the deal as it stands is not in America's interest.
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While covering the cricket market in India for his book Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy, Hawkins learned how easy match fixers can get in on a game.
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Mambele epitomized those unseen drivers, fixers and translators whose work - often at personal risk - is critical to reporting the news from the toughest places on earth.
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He is trying to turn the people charged with federal law enforcement into presidential fixers, starting with Mr. Barr, who finds himself in a tight spot.
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So Manafort went to Florida the other day to assure members of the Republican National Committee — the ultimate insiders and fixers — that they need not worry.
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The fixers believed they needed Putin's support to pull off the lucrative deal, and they planned to use Trump's public praise for him to help secure it.
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Travel and experience marketplace Fixers pitches experiences ranging from yoga retreats to trail running weekends and music festivals that are curated by the locals in-the-know.
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People like Stine are fixers, guides to the cutthroat land of Amazon, who are willing to give their assistance to the desperate — for a price, of course.
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"Every sniffle is being treated by central banks as acute respiratory distress syndrome worthy of 'code-blues' and teams of frantic pumpers and fixers," the managers wrote.
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The Fixers Collective was founded in 22016 by Tammy Pittman and David Mahfouda in the now-defunct Proteus Gowanus art space, in response to the Great Recession.
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Some are wearing all black, some are dolled up, and some—quite a few, actually—are wearing T-shirts that say "FUCK TATTOO FIXERS" in bold caps.
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Once a month, Jones teaches a practical board repair class out of the shop, and in doing so has spread her knowledge to hundreds of other fixers.
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They have now become Trump's fixers, doing his dirty work, issuing threats and ditching long-held principles like so many empty beer bottles thrown from a car.
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But as BuzzFeed News reported in November, Trump's fixers planned not to sell it — but to give it away for free, to none other than Vladimir Putin himself.
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Inspired by this, the Digital Right to Repair Coalition was formed from over 30 groups, including the Fixers Collective and iFixit, to advocate for other "fair repair" laws.
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Trump was attended by a coterie of fixers and enablers who thrived by playing the roles he gave them, often in violation of the norms that others observe.
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The President, who relied on this cadre of fixers and enablers in the past, has a new one in his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who is leading the counterattack.
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These are the titular fixers, a term Sopko learned from a photojournalist that describes locals hired by foreign correspondents to help with finding sources and putting together stories.
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One evening a month, the Fixers Collective convenes at the Hack Manhattan workshop to repair busted phones, computers and other gadgets brought to them by the stumped public.
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We spoke on television, wrote articles, acted as fixers for foreign journalists, helped humanitarian organizations document massacres and critiqued shoddy international news coverage of Yemen on social media.
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If you live in New York or LA, we've got you covered on this front with recommendations for fixers in both cities; see New York here and LA here.
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The Fixers agree the issue likely has to do with the device's shell, so they use the screwdriver to mash the switch normally hidden under the external power button.
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In the past, election fixers trying to eliminate voter privacy might have made people deposit their yes and no votes into different boxes, or link ballots to an identity.
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Colleagues shared stories of fixers who paid Syrians to pose as members of the Islamic State, coaching them on what to say, which made the exercise even more fraught.
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One pattern you begin to notice in "Mind Fixers" is how psychiatric theories — whether biological or psychoanalytical — had a way of grafting themselves onto prevailing prejudices of the day.
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Failure to clearly explain that simple fact leads to distorted asset price expectations, based on guesses about central banks' actions as fixers of last resort (aka central bank puts).
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The people in the films act as fixers for the media and delegates visiting town this week, virtually giving them the tours that actual Clevelanders believe they should take.
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The report also noted that a small number of groups disproportionately file requests, suggesting a small cottage industry in reputation fixers has arisen since the rules were put into effect.
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Corruption indictments filed Thursday against two Giuliani fixers who investigated Joe Biden do not just introduce the first criminal jeopardy into the cast of characters in the wider Ukraine intrigue.
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Iran's shadow economy has been a breeding ground for corruption and nepotism, and foreign companies will be wary of approaches by local "fixers" who would pay bribes on their behalf.
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Bringing gambling into the mainstream would permit greater surveillance, but legalisation would also make the betting market many times larger, with bigger potential rewards for fixers and corrupt players alike.
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Yee is facing sentencing next month on a plea deal for charges of bribery, money laundering, and gun trafficking as a result of FBI stings targeting California politicians and fixers.
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It's usually just me flying to the country where I am reporting, staying by myself in a hotel and then meeting up with our translators and fixers during the day.
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He puts himself in the hands of lunar fixers, Indian Vedic astrologers, birth-chart readers, and whoever writes horoscopes for the newspaper, to discover his personal destiny as a Scorpio.
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But with Mr. Clinton, at least as far as we know, he didn't pay anyone through back-channel fixers to keep them quiet — all in order to influence a campaign.
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While Fixers urge President Trump to adopt a "decertify, waive, slap, and fix" approach, Walkers advocate a "wave, slap, and walk" approach: Wave goodbye, slap on sanctions, and walk away.
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But as one of the few female fixers in Erbil, Iraq, she's also developed a reputation even among the notoriously cold-blooded—and male-dominated—foreign correspondent set for fearlessness.
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Ethan (a pseudonym) emailed me the names of fixers and translators and boutique hotels and agreed to join me for dinner before I took the Shinkansen bullet train west to Osaka.
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It's clearly not the ideal arrangement, but if one tries to understand their own sensitivities and thinks of them as fixers it's possible to work quite effectively even within these parameters.
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In response to enquiries from Motherboard, one government department has been unusually forthcoming about what it actually uses hacking for: catching price fixers and others involved in criminally anti-competitive behaviour.
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Most sports spend a minuscule fraction of revenue on anti-corruption measures such as educating players and officials about fixers' methods, or on monitoring betting patterns and sending officials to tournaments.
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Christina and I spent a few weeks planning the trips, crafting the itineraries, and developing relationships with local people, including fixers — people who act as guides and translators on the ground.
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"One thing I can say for sure is that of those 15 players, there is no way that all of them are match-fixers," says Jeff Sackmann, a tennis data writer.
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Earlier this month, on February 2nd, 2016, the Digital Right to Repair Coalition rebranded as The Repair Association, an organization that includes fixers of cellphones, medical devices, and tractors, among others.
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The main problem in all of this, according to members of the industry, is the way Tattoo Fixers is making them look, as individuals, as British artists, and as a community.
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There were no spellcheckers, there were no grammar fixers – I could determine basic language skills, visual acuity, mathematical skills, understanding of format, and attention to detail without even reading their resume.
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Match fixers often operate through illicit sports gambling websites that allow people to place bets on seemingly minor plays, like the number of first-inning walks yielded by a starting pitcher.
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Trump has claimed to not know fixers who worked with Rudy Giuliani to carry out his Ukraine scheme, despite video of them hanging out together at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
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In 1956 the state had directed a group of piano-fixers to start building the instruments in Guangzhou, but for years Pearl River Piano could not muster even one a month.
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This is the gallery presentation of Sopko's The Fixers, a social practice project centered on a series of six short films that were released serially between May 20 and July 21.
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Not only is the live betting market more lucrative for gamblers—and fixers—but in this scenario it's easy to fix a tennis match in a way where the favorite still wins.
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The lawsuit, which seeks more than $200,000 in damages, names as defendants Ronaldo and an unnamed team of fixers described as "personal reputation protection specialists" hired to make the situation go away.
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Mayorga claims immediately following the 2009 incident, Ronaldo and his team of "fixers" coerced her into signing a settlement and nondisclosure agreement -- in which she got $375k in exchange for her silence.
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Colleagues were flown in from around the world to reinforce the U.S.- and Latin American-based team of photographers, drivers and fixers, many of them spending weeks or months on the road.
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Match-fixers only have to buy a maximum of two players to get the result they want in a given singles match, which makes tennis cheaper to fix than a team sport.
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He says he's never even been approached by fixers, although he has received a threatening phone call or two from gamblers angry with him for being upset by a lower-ranked opponent.
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Ryvkin and I came up with ''Londongrad,'' a fast-paced picaresque — half comedy, half thriller — about a brilliant, anarchic Oxford dropout and his Muscovite rich-girl sidekick who work as fixers in London.
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Levy determines that the motherboard isn't getting power, and with the help of several other fixers, manages to solder a bridge over a broken circuit, connecting two functioning ones and restoring the board.
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The angriest objectors allege that fights are easier to fix under the new system, though none has provided solid evidence or even a clear picture of how fixers might get around AIBA's safeguards.
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A year and a half back, F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors arrested assistant coaches and sneaker company fixers and pointed the finger at A.A.U. coaches and coaches who made payments to star players.
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These are fixers who aren't just swapping cracked screens and dead batteries, but who are more like physicians, diagnosing and repairing tiny electrical problems on the motherboard (or logic board, as Apple calls it).
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This question was the impetus for Sopko's project The Fixers, a series of six short documentary films released – at Spaces gallery, at screenings around Cleveland and online – in the lead-up to the RNC.
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The Cox's Bazar hospitality industry seemed to booming: Hotels bustled with NGO workers and journalists; car-service prices were up 50 percent; English-speaking locals were being snapped up as fixers, translators, and guides.
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At the same time, technology has allowed corrupting matches to become more intricate, as fixers can manipulate a portion of matches — so-called spot fixes — to lock in a profit regardless of who wins.
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You can always search the web for local tour guides and fixers before you go, or alternatively find a guide through your hotel's concierge a travel agent or by calling the local tourist office.
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When Trump was just a no-class developer who used his private fixers to go after his enemies, and lied five ways before breakfast, it was of no consequence to the rest of us.
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HB: Speaking of your Yovanovitch, there's audio out there of Trump apparently demanding that she had to go while having dinner with the alleged fixers who eventually ran an operation to get her fired.
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Fixers emphasize plugging 3 main holes in the agreement: tightening its verifications loopholes; preventing advancement of the ballistic missile program; and scrapping the sunset clauses, because they are time-based rather than behavior-based.
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I had not moved to New York yet when the surfaces of its downstairs bathrooms provided cocaine runways for some "Saturday Night Live" cast members and a troop of art-market players and fixers.
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Again and again, The Fixers project shows the importance of the involvement of the community, both in the films themselves and at city-wide events that have been taking place for the past month.
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Meanwhile, elopement "fixers" say they have never been busier thanks to soaring demand from couples who want personalized ceremonies without an audience — or with a very small one — in far-flung destinations and specialized venues.
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At nearly every step of Rudy Giuliani's effort to get the Ukrainian government to investigate Trump's political rivals, Giuliani has been accompanied by two men often described as his "fixers": Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman.
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" Hett, reported to be 29, had appeared on the reality TV shows Tattoo Fixers and Come Dine With Me. Rumpus said on its website that Hett had packed life "to the brim with his passions.
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There are many other things that you can do, like get in touch with some fixers who will help you or paying off doctors in third-world countries for a death certificate, and what not.
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For people living in transit countries—the drivers, the fixers, the translators, the guards, the shopkeepers, the hawala brokers, the bookkeepers, the police officers, the checkpoint runners, the bandits—business has never been more profitable.
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Especially for those of us who are natural "fixers," the urge to intervene and help a child avoid failure can be a potent force to reckon it, and one that comes with plenty of rationalizations.
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" The science of mental illness has vexed researchers for generations, and the Harvard scholar Anne Harrington takes up the subject in her new book, "Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness.
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The initial legal team he surrounded himself with as Mueller ramped up were a mix of brash New York fixers and prominent inside-the-Beltway figures, but not necessarily made-for-TV, prime-time players.
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In 1971, after Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the Times, Nixon administration fixers known as "the plumbers" broke into his psychiatrist's office in Los Angeles in the hope of finding damning medical records.
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CNN reported last night that Giuliani's Soviet-born associates and Ukraine fixers said they were arrested when they were on their way to set up an interview for Sean Hannity with former Ukraine prosecutor Victor Shokin.
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Fixers have been fighting for exemptions to the DMCA, and in October 2015 the United States Copyright Office finally adopted a new set, making it legal to unlock carrier-activated phones, tablets, wearables, and mobile hotspots.
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Turkey also tolerated the foreign fighters who crossed its territory en route to Syria, filling border towns with smugglers, fixers and a growing number of long-bearded men intent on joining a fight imbued with extremism.
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Meanwhile, Ronaldo had retained a team of "fixers" who monitored Mayorga, her family, her friends and law enforcement to develop a strategy to prevent the public disclosure of the allegations and criminal prosecution, the lawsuit alleged.
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Another familiar face in several of the photos is Parnas' partner, Igor Fruman, who has also been identified as one of Giuliani's "fixers" in digging for dirt on Biden and is currently facing campaign finance charges.
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These sexy, sexy people can be doctors and fixers and students and con-artists, but the two things that unify this wide universe of characters, all produced by Rhimes, are their boundless talent and extremely soapy lives.
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Rubin collaborated with two female fixers and a lawyer who sought to "cover up" his "sexual misconduct and criminal abuse of women and to serve as a cover for his wide-ranging human trafficking scheme," Balestriere added.
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Apple is famously unwilling to allow its customers to have broken iPhones repaired anywhere except in its own shops, going so far as to use software updates to disable replacement touchscreens installed by cheaper third-party fixers.
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According to the report published this week by youth organisation Fixers, girls are being pressured into having sex and performing sexual acts out of fear of being branded "frigid" by peers and bullied for being a virgin.
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Stovall has alleged that Mayorga, then 25, was so stressed by pressure from "fixers" trying to protect the reputation of Ronaldo, then 24, that she lacked the legal capacity to sign a non-disclosure agreement 10 years ago.
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Fines in the region for cartel violations have steadily risen in recent years, largely because financial punishment is the main way for European Union regulators, who unlike their American counterparts cannot jail price-fixers, to enforce their laws.
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I was made to dress in traditional Yemeni clothes and chew khat in order to sneak through the checkpoints, though I'm not sure whether this was necessary for my own safety or for the amusement of my fixers.
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Neither Ronaldo nor Juventus have addressed the allegation by Mayorga that she received a payoff of $375,000 in 2010 after being put under pressure by the player's "fixers" to keep quiet about an incident in a penthouse hotel suite.
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Tan, a fresh-faced and bubbly 22-year-old with a network-attached storage device under her arm, beelined for Vincent Lai, a member of the Fixers Collective, seated at the end of the table closest to the door.
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Just a few months ago, Mayorga filed a new lawsuit against the soccer star saying Ronaldo and his team of "fixers" coerced her into signing a settlement at the time -- and paid her $375k in exchange for her silence.
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The Fixers are focused on plugging three primary holes in the agreement — namely, tightening its vast verifications loopholes, preventing the advancement of Iran's ballistic-missile program, and scrapping the sunset clauses that are time-based rather than behavior-based.
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While the Fixers are urging the president to adopt their "decertify, waive, slap, and fix" plan, the Walkers are pressing for what could be called, a "wave, slap, and walk" approach: Wave goodbye, slap on sanctions, and walk away.
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M.B.Z., who was in many ways the most pivotal Arab player in this strategic drama, has long been surrounded by a shadowy network of part-time advisers, fixers, and confidants, many of whom shared his hatred of Iran's rulers.
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Oblivious to the truth of the kingdom that he was romancing, he bought into and promoted the idea of the Saudis as forward-thinking fixers who would make his self-aggrandizing delusion of peace in the Middle East happen.
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Vincent Lai, who works for the Fixers' Collective, a social club in New York that repairs aging devices, said people could become more empowered by repairing, maintaining and modifying products to escape the upgrade cycle that tech companies impose.
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That, too, could make them an appealing target for match fixers, who typically have targeted players on lower-tier men's leagues or teams, rather than those in the game's most high-profile leagues, where players draw multimillion-dollar salaries.
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Michael M. Thomas, a writer and former partner at Lehman Brothers who left the firm long before it filed for bankruptcy protection in 2008, took a more patrician, and rococo, path in his novel "Fixers," which was published last month.
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United States, spelled out an expansive definition of what an "official act" of a US government official can be — and therefore, many gifts and payments given to those officials (or their friends, ex-counsel, and fixers) wouldn't qualify as bribery.
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He was one of a breed of "fixers", or "bagmen", who flit between Africa and Europe, cultivating ties with politicians and taking a cut from "facilitation payments" from investors bidding for licences to drill for oil or dig for gold.
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Dr. Esho owns his own eponymous clinics, features as a TV doctor on the E4 reality show Body Fixers, and claims to have pioneered the "Instagram" lip — which would make him a very influential figure in the aesthetics industry, indeed.
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Mr Trump is applying the same family-business formula to his presidential campaign, making all the key decisions himself, but also relying on his three adult children plus Mr Kushner to act as campaign aides, surrogates and all-purpose fixers.
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Here are the books discussed by The Times's critics this week: "Spring" by Ali Smith "Mind Fixers" by Anne Harrington #MeToo novels We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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In the last two months alone, three international captains reported being approached by match-fixers, including two — Zimbabwe's Graeme Cremer and Pakistan's Sarfraz Ahmed — from the dozen elite nations who play Test cricket, the five-day version of the sport.
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In that case, the court said that state and local governments, which paid higher construction costs to their general contractors as a result of price fixing by cement block manufacturers, could not sue to recover damages from the price fixers.
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"If those interpreters and those fixers hear that the United States is not going to protect them, then they don't have any incentive to work with U.S. troops, and there's no way that we can operate without their support and assistance."
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The round of subpoenas and interviews suggests prosecutors are digging more deeply into the financial relationships between the two Florida men, who appeared to rise out of nowhere to become fixtures at Trump fundraisers and fixers for Giuliani's efforts in Ukraine.
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Another device is the "honey trap"—a woman paid to strike up an acquaintance with a player and introduce him to fixers, or even to have an affair with him, meaning photographs can be taken and used as blackmail if he rebuffs them.
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How "fixers" are fighting the DMCA and planned obsolescence for the right to repair It was approaching 230:23 pm on a Wednesday, but dozens of people were crowded around several long wooden tables in the center of a cluttered workshop in Chelsea.
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In " Mind Fixers " (Norton), Anne Harrington, a history-of-science professor at Harvard, follows "psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness," deftly tracing a progression of paradigms adopted by neurologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists, as well as patients and their advocates.
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She is one of more than 50 people who have been charged in the nationwide federal investigation, which saw wealthy and, in some cases, famous parents pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to fixers and coconspirators to get their children into prestigious colleges.
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While the millennial proletariat was wrestling with imposter syndrome and being priced out of the housing market, the rich and famous were paying fixers to get their kids into Ivy League schools, and tech bros were leading investors on billion-dollar vision-quests.
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Sopko titled the project The Fixers as a reference to the journalistic role of "the fixer," a hired local professional with vast knowledge of a location who helps a visiting journalist dive into a story without much previous knowledge of the place.
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Parallel to SIS efforts, British military trainers were responsible for training the Yemeni Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), including setting up their surveillance section and an Intelligence Fusion Center, used to manage networks of sources and analyze intelligence gathered during hits on AQAP fixers.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Big financial incentives for gamblers, small tournaments of little consequence to top players and the ease of fixing the outcome of a one-on-one sport have helped turn world tennis into a haven for match-fixers, according to experts and industry insiders.
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Adriane Ohanesian recounts being ambushed in Congo while working on a story — despite her gear being destroyed, she continued the assignment to bring to light the risks faced by rangers protecting wildlife, not to mention their fixers, drivers, and support staff (and, incidentally, Ohanesian herself).
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According to court records in Florida, authorities say at least 40 underage girls were brought into Epstein's Palm Beach mansion for what turned into sexual encounters after female fixers looked for suitable girls locally and in Eastern Europe and other parts of the world.
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The Enquirer and a constellation of "fixers" sought to buy the rights to the stories of accusers and then sit on the information; to collect information on accusers; or to trade juicy stories with gossip writers in exchange for not writing about Mr. Weinstein's affairs.
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This is what you can see happening in the Trump Tower Moscow project, so far as I can tell — instead of Putin offering Trump a sweetheart deal, it seems to have involved his fixers trying to get the Russian government's attention, to no practical end.
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In old Hollywood, trespasses and illegal offenses were regularly cleaned up and hushed up by fixers like Eddie Mannix, an executive and enforcer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer back in its glossiest, outwardly glamorous heyday when any whiff of scandal, any ostensible deviance, was quietly concealed.
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A military official noted on Saturday that the American military, which uses translators and fixers in Iraq and Syria, two of the countries on the banned list, would find it harder to recruit, since the Pentagon has long offered the promise of refuge in America.
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Much of this betokens what Atul Hatwal, a Labour commentator, calls the victory of the "Stalinists" (cynical but capable fixers like Seumas Milne, Mr Corbyn's Richelieu) over the "Trotskyists" (airy idealists like Jon Lansman, an ally of Labour's leader who advocates bottom-up control of the party).
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UK Export Finance (UKEF), a government agency responsible for the UK's share of European government export financing for Airbus sales, said earlier it had referred the matter to the Serious Fraud Office after Airbus provided it with information on the historical use of overseas intermediaries, or fixers.
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Though Epstein was accused of sexually abusing as many as 40 underage girls –– brought to his home by a group of "fixers" who scouted for them –– he served only 13 months in a private wing of a Palm Beach county jail under the terms of the deal.
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This strategy is half a Jedi mind trick and half a mutant CHUD form of neuro-linguistic programming, but we Virgos did not earn our reputation as the fixers of the zodiac by sitting on our asses and not manipulating ourselves (and others) into getting shit done .
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Crime It took 14 years, beginning with "The Power of the Dog" in 2005, but Don Winslow has finally finished his monumental trilogy about the Mexican drug cartels and, on the other side of the border, the American dealers, fixers and addicts who keep the trade flourishing.
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Chinese entities and individuals have plowed more than $3 billion into overseas soccer investments over the past year or so - a boon for cash-strapped clubs, but also for advisers and fixers like Jarvis, who have carved a niche connecting the Middle Kingdom's cash with Europe's clubs.
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Instead, fixers take advantage of the many side bets offered by bookies and arrange for a player to do something small that they can nonetheless bet on: Take a throw-in at a certain time, bogey a specific hole or bowl a cricket ball a certain way.
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The House of Lords is an absurdly over-crowded House of Cronies, a gilded cattle-car stuffed to bursting point with has-beens, bag-carriers, time-servers and fixers; we seem to have succeeded at the almost impossible task of reforming a hereditary chamber and making it even worse.
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Instead, through spin work and studio-employed "fixers," they prevented the problem of public knowledge of those activities — which allowed the public to reinvest in the myths (of American identity, of proper masculinity and femininity, of Protestant work ethic and self-denial) that the scandals had brought into question.
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Men -- whether they're photo editors with hiring power, established photography icons in charge of mentoring students at workshops and universities, colleagues out in the field, fixers, curators or assistants -- need to pull themselves together and treat their women colleagues like grown adults who deserve respect and bodily autonomy.
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And so, in the aftermath of the first season, the show began, smartly, to expand its breadth, folding in grizzled character actors, from Eric Bogosian to David Strathairn, along with a diverse range of C.E.O.s, venture capitalists, quants, fixers, and shady lawyers—a veritable Westeros of compromised players.
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Despite the breeziness of Breitbart's description, there was in fact a global army of trolls, not unlike the ones shown on "South Park," who were eagerly "shit-posting" on Trump's behalf, their harassment an anonymous version of the "rat-fucking" that used to be the province of paid fixers.
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Assembling his team of well-placed fixers and power brokers in what's literally a smoke-filled room, they counsel Ted and strategize about how to salvage his career -- using public excitement about the moon landing as cover to stifle negative publicity -- while evincing no concern about the accident's victim.
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Games at the tournament are drawing millions of dollars worth of bets, another sign of the World Cup's growing popularity but also one of future risks to the women's game, where match-fixers long active in professional men's soccer are beginning to cast their gaze toward their female counterparts.
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As my colleague Andrew Prokop wrote, Parnas and Fruman are often described as "fixers" for Giuliani, and the three men collaborated in a successful effort to oust the then-US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, amid the Trump administration's efforts to cajole the new Ukrainian government to investigate the Bidens.
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Tan, who works for CodeEd teaching girls to code, believes that education — "just showing people that they absolutely can do things that seem daunting now but are actually not as complicated as they think" — is one of the most powerful things groups like the Fixers Collective and iFixit can provide.
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Like much prior literature in this vein, McDonell's book recalls his own firsthand experiences, as he recounts his interactions through "fixers" with ordinary people in one scene, and then tells of jumping a helicopter to an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan to observe American forces target and kill an enemy.
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Over the next few months, two remarkable fixers helped her in her sleuthing: a Sierra Leonean named Jaime Yaya Barry, who had helped The Times cover the Ebola outbreak in 2014, and, later, a northern Nigerian named Shehu, who had already established a reputation locally for his reporting on Boko Haram.
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As hospitals grapple with more coughing and feverish emergency-room visitors than they can test, the White House has deployed a SWAT team of fixers and technocrats to ramp up coronavirus testing, in an implicit acknowledgment that the Trump administration's response has continued to fall short of what is needed.
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As they see the problem, the deal's central defect arises not from the technical loopholes the Fixers are trying to tighten but from the original sin Obama committed: recognizing Iran's unrestrained right to enrich uranium in a set amount of time in a deal that conferred legal status on the nuclear program.
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That same lens of responsibility also applies to the now infamous June meeting at Trump Tower which had Kushner, Donald Trump Jr. and campaign director Paul Manafort on one side and two Russian lawyers, a translator and two representatives of the Agalarov family (the Russian fixers for the meeting) on the other.
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This is especially true because most people don't show their true, toxic colors right off the bat — and if a relationship starts off as a loving, mutually beneficial and growth-oriented one, it's difficult to admit it when that relationship takes a sour turn (especially for strong-headed women who tend to be fixers).
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Various fixers and event planners put together elaborate itineraries, which sometimes include a round of golf at a nearby club, such as Sage Valley, across the South Carolina border—a highly regarded Augusta National clone, founded in 2001 by a real-estate magnate who had given up on being invited to join the real thing.
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With the pace and propulsive power of a thriller, the series' longread showed how a circle of high-flying lawyers, fixers, and business partners of oligarch and fierce Putin enemy Boris Berezovsky died one by one in mysterious circumstances that US spies suspect are linked to Russian state security or organized crime, two groups that sometimes work together.
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For years, it refused to sell parts and share information with unauthorized repair shops (and authorized shops are prohibited from doing any of the logic board repairs Jones offers), forcing independent and DIY fixers to rely on aftermarket parts that can vary in quality and, in the case of microsolderers, on board schematics that were leaked to the internet.
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I've often thought that, in a sense, one of the least free people on earth must be the president of the United States — an office no one can attain without becoming beholden to campaign donors, lobbyists, party leaders and other invisible fixers, and whose policy options are constrained to the narrow slit of the American political spectrum.
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The Trump administration's sprawling controversies have spawned an expanded universe's worth of figures, from trash-talking Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti to Donald Trump's own crew of lawyer-fixers to Anthony Scaramucci to the very online Michael Flynn Jr. But none of the current dramatis personae compare to Liddy, with his unwavering loyalty to his boss and macho quirks.
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It doesn't, because we've been living in a country undergoing its own dismal process of Ukrainianization: of treating fictions as facts; and propaganda as journalism; and political opponents as criminals; and political offices as business ventures; and personal relatives as diplomatic representatives; and legal fixers as shadow cabinet members; and extortion as foreign policy; and toadyism as patriotism; and fellow citizens as "human scum"; and mortal enemies as long-lost friends — and then acting as if all this is perfectly normal.
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