The attitude invariably felt more adolescent provocateur than sociopolitical gadfly.
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Gadfly asks if Hershey should jump on the deal bandwagon.
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He is an indefatigable gadfly and an unusually successful litigant.
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There's kind of schmoozing and being known and being a gadfly.
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For a long time, Farage was merely a far-right gadfly.
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He had to pivot from being a gadfly to a plausible nominee.
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But, as Gadfly points out, that's actually better than Amazon's own margin.
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Tara Lachapelle of Gadfly argues that ego shouldn't hold up a deal.
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In 264, "They couldn't even find a gadfly to run," Jones said.
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" (Gadfly) • Elizabeth Winkler writes, "Yet Disney's brand is powerful around the world.
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There ends any resemblance between the American president and the Athenian gadfly.
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He is a gadfly, a goad, and a left-wing Pied Piper.
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Ingrid's next fixation is Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen), a social media gadfly.
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He revels in his gadfly status and has developed a taste for litigating.
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Among Utah's winners: Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee-turned-anti-Trump gadfly.
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Trump was then a New York real estate developer, author and media gadfly.
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I'm like this gadfly, roaming around the stage, trying to get messages out.
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If Mr. Trump, the gadfly celebrity, sees media exposure as an opportunity, Mrs.
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The gadfly of the agora wears coarse clothes and a coating of grime.
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Robert Gangi, for instance, has long been a gadfly advocating criminal justice reform.
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Mr. Ferlinghetti's gadfly goal has often been, simply, to keep the city weird.
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Meanwhile, Mr Cruz is mocking his gadfly for resorting to a "silly circus sideshow".
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It is Matthew Lee, 50, a gadfly who has long covered the United Nations.
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You went around ... You were kind of a gadfly in a lot of ways.
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Bonnell has entangled himself, like a gadfly, into a web of contrarianism and derangement.
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The firestorm has also propelled Mr. Wolff from local media gadfly into national newsmaker.
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His recent gadfly behavior isn't expanding into the social democratic space that lawmakers like Sen.
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But Gadfly warns that it isn't clear how much institutional support Mr. Sewing will have.
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Louie Gohmert, a GOP gadfly who is not part of the Freedom Caucus, told reporters.
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Playing the role of the Socratic gadfly in the foundations of physics is sometimes important.
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She led marches, held marathons, set up awkward organisations, and in every way was a gadfly.
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There not just going to go after some gadfly, there has to be a there there.
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An alcohol abuser and incorrigible gadfly, his family's affection for him is hanging by a thread.
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He was also a sharp-tongued gadfly who didn't suffer fools gladly and made enemies easily.
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Mr. Khashoggi was a gadfly, a nuisance, but hardly a threat to the House of Saud.
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Shira Ovide of Gadfly asked whether Spotify could sustain itself on its 25 percent gross margins.
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Critics' corner: Investors are right to expect a bidding war, according to Chris Hughes of Gadfly.
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The politician, Laurent Louis, is a far-right gadfly known for making inflammatory statements about Jews.
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Even though Trump was a private gadfly at the time, all of this had an impact.
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Chris Hughes and Max Nisen of Gadfly aren't sure a bidding war for Shire is warranted.
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Yang was considered a gadfly early in the Democratic primary and written off by other candidates.
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Clay Tiffany, a local gadfly, accused Mr. Tartaglione of beating him, according to The Journal News.
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He helped Trump's campaign rise from one of a political gadfly to the presumptive Republican nominee.
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And without Trump, Bannon would still be a colorful but little-known media executive and radio gadfly.
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" Liam Denning of Bloomberg Gadfly writes: "Challenges on the factory floor and the balance sheet are converging.
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At that price, it could be attractive to private equity firms, the writers at Bloomberg Gadfly say.
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Shira Ovide of Gadfly thinks that his evasiveness about how the company works shows that it's embarrassed.
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If the deal fails, T-Mobile has a bright future, but Sprint doesn't, Tara Lachapelle of Gadfly writes.
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And he struck the same populist tone that has helped propel Trump from political gadfly to GOP nominee.
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Tristan Tzara, the Romanian poet and gadfly who waited out the war in Switzerland, has moved to Paris.
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These seem overly kind to managers—and, in Mr Jackson's words, "swat at a gadfly with a sledgehammer".■
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London's former mayor, the Conservative gadfly Boris Johnson, is gleefully lobbying for Britons to leave the European Union.
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But for many Green devotees, the party can triumph, even in defeat, as a gadfly to the left.
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Shira Ovide of Gadfly argues no, since only a tiny fraction of Spotify's shares are available to trade.
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In its early days, The Scene, like other alt-weeklies of the time, played the role of gadfly.
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But Shira Ovide of Gadfly thinks that, in at least one case, tech companies should do more backbiting.
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For example, Canadian political gadfly Ezra Levant republished "Mohammed cartoons," in Canada after they sparked unrest in Europe.
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And we think of Socrates as a gadfly, philosophizing in the street and somehow speaking truth to power.
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The billionaire returned the kind words, thanking his gadfly and urging other companies to join him in raising wages.
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" • Shira Ovide of Gadfly writes: "Zuckerberg believes he's giving users control, but he's giving them the illusion of control.
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Such arguments should not convince a global audience, however, given Greenwald's history as an equal opportunity anti-establishment gadfly.
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Trump has applied the principle widely, from Saudi Arabia's treatment of gadfly journalists to North Korea's treatment of everybody.
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And his easy manner belies a stubborn streak that his neighbors see as the mark of a dangerous gadfly.
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So the gadfly part of it was that there really weren't ... I didn't mean that in an insulting way.
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He largely shrugged off attacks from gadfly fringe candidates trying to attack him, and didn't make any gaffes of note.
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The road from China to the U.S. appears to be largely closed for now, writes Brooke Sutherland of Bloomberg Gadfly.
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Gillian Tan of Gadfly suggests that Timothy Sloan, who became the bank's C.E.O. after the scandals, may have to go.
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In Brazil, Mr. Zé, 80, is known as a pioneer, a tinkerer, a jokester, a deep thinker and a gadfly.
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Sanders was a gadfly senator with no major legislation to his name who idiosyncratically refused to officially join the Democratic Party.
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Ward writes that Steve Bannon, Trump's former chief strategist and a noted media gadfly, said Trump hates "saying no" to Ivanka.
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While viewing numbers are extraordinary, as Bloomberg Gadfly points out, the direct revenue is still relatively meager, compared to traditional sports.
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It's growing into something harder to manage, says Jennifer Saba of Breakingviews — and something fundamentally more profitable, says Shira Ovide of Gadfly.
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O'Brien, now the executive editor of Bloomberg Gadfly and Bloomberg View, assured reporters on Thursday that they didn't have much to fear.
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"They didn't take him seriously enough because they thought they had a gadfly," says John Morgan, a Florida attorney and Clinton donor.
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" Last month, The Daily Beast reported a Trump dinner with Fox News host Jesse Watters and former White House gadfly Seb "Dr.
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He was a gadfly, bouncing between the West and the Middle East, by turns a courtier, commentator, public intellectual and mild dissident.
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In Mr. Trump's first celebrity phase, as a brass-plated capitalist cartoon in the '80s and '90s, he was a media gadfly.
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Aluminum makes up about 80 percent of the weight of most commercial aircrafts, according to Brooke Sutherland and David Fickling of Gadfly.
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One of the few journalists to note the existence of the UMG archive was Nikki Finke, the entertainment-industry blogger and gadfly.
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The new allegations came from a pseudonymous source both legendary and loathed in biomedical circles: a scientific gadfly known as Clare Francis.
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"It has to be seen in context," Mr. Stone said of his exchanges with Randy Credico, a former associate and political gadfly.
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Wu supported the decision at the time, but changed course in a research paper published last summer funded by Google's arch-gadfly, Yelp.
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Right-wing gadfly and longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone pushed the narrative during an interview with Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos during an August conversation.
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Despite leading the polls since July, the billionaire continued to be regarded by the party as a gadfly who would eventually self-destruct.
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There will be no pivot Bannon's hiring is a return to the rebellious origins that launched Trump from political gadfly to GOP nominee.
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Critics' corner: Nir Kaissar of Gadfly thinks that the big question is how many users value privacy more than having a Facebook account.
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And one of the earliest casualties of our fun-deficient, conformist age (Ellis is entirely right about this) has been the intellectual gadfly.
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" (Gadfly) • Lex writes, "Any spinoff would put paid to the Thomson family's decade-long hopes for combining a media business with financial services.
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"Bernie Sanders has gone from gadfly to GOAT nearly overnight," one Democratic strategist, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about Sanders, told Insider.
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He had been a gadfly, writing unfavorably of the volunteer paramilitary battalions in the east and of the oligarchs ensnared in corruption scandals.
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Instead, they made devastating attacks on Representative Mo Brooks, an arch-conservative lawmaker whom they viewed as a Senate gadfly in the making.
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Yesterday, the world of games journalism and criticism blew up in response to an Atlantic article penned by the trickster-gadfly-academic Ian Bogost.
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Mr Trujillo began his political career as a conservative, but became a gadfly of the establishment through his work with environmental and social movements.
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She first established herself as a gadfly to the regime in 2014, after the parliament batted down a proposal to reinstate presidential term limits.
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But first he has to get past a primary challenge from Danny Tarkanian, who's said he's won the backing of party gadfly Steve Bannon.
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Variously a journalist, a publicist and a Zelig-like gadfly of the music scene, he had a consistent ear for the next new thing.
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And so you did that and then continued to sort of be a, I wouldn't say gadfly because there's a lot of gadflies. Yeah.
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There are two sides to Bernie Sanders that can seem somewhat contradictory — the long-shot electoral gadfly and the canny pragmatist focused on results.
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Olivia's good intentions keep running aground with Antoine, the workshop's gadfly and troll, played with taut intensity by Matthieu Lucci, in a bracing debut.
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" (Gadfly) • Jennifer Saba writes of Jana's campaign, "It's an unusual issue for an activist, and apps from Facebook and Snap would make better targets.
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Another former associate of Mr. Stone, the New York political gadfly Randy Credico, is also expected to testify before the grand jury on Friday.
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Kucinich, a former member of Congress who ran for president in 2004 and 2008, has long been a left-wing gadfly for the Democratic Party.
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The resurgence in GOP support for his potential return to the Senate comes even as he was frequently a gadfly within the Senate Republican caucus.
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It seemed, if anything, like a strategic retreat, allowing him to continue in his role as a media gadfly while keeping his legal options open.
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In the nineteen-nineties, he was a gadfly leftist in a party that was trying to seize the political center after twelve years of Reaganism.
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In addition to stopping Coulter's speech, the vocal minority who is speaking up also demanded conservative gadfly Milo Yiannopoulos be banned from campus in January.
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Shares of Singapore-listed commodity trader Noble Group tumbled in Friday afternoon trade after gadfly anonymous researcher Iceberg Research launched another negative report about the company.
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Earlier this year, Harris was interviewed by Kara Swisher, the gadfly journalist and frenemy of the tech industry, who asked him to explain what C.H.T. did.
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The Trump Taj Mahal, now owned by billionaire gadfly Carl Icahn, is the last casino in the city to bear Trump's name, which was once ubiquitous.
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His decision to go public, embracing the role of moral gadfly and guardian of the public weal, came as something of a shock, even to himself.
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He relished his role as a gadfly, and Democrats were eager to encourage him because doing so made the Republican conference less united and less effective.
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The reason for that may be that "both Fox and Disney have reasons for wanting to possess all of Sky," writes Chris Hughes of Bloomberg Gadfly.
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Seth sort of serves as the marriage gadfly, but even with his cartoonish levels of privilege, he feels acute pressure to be included in respectable coupledom.
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In June, 1967, Abbie Hoffman, the antic gadfly of the Vietnam years, wed his second wife, Anita, in a hippie happening on Central Park's Great Lawn.
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"I don't mean this in a derogatory way, but it is maybe a bit of a fault—he is something of a gadfly," Clay told me.
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A longtime expert networker, gadfly and investor, he was always touting fascinating then-groundbreaking mobile start-ups, and he had a great eye for the future.
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Instead, he's emerged as a gadfly, loudly and publicly sounding the alarm on what he sees as the country's troubling descent into authoritarianism under President Donald Trump.
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That is because they see Mr Bolsonaro, who in seven terms as a gadfly in congress never advanced beyond its "lower clergy", as a potentially transformational leader.
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C. movement is too beholden to gadfly politics—too interested in shock and offensiveness as political strategies—to address the problematic dearth of conservative voices on campus.
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However, listed American firms which faced non-gadfly proposals outperformed the market by 5% one year after the shareholder meeting at which they were presented was held.
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"It's very fashionable when someone does something wrong to say, 'I always knew he was a criminal," said Kenny Schachter, an artist, gadfly and columnist for Artnet.
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A contrary view: Walmart and Home Depot have shown that big-box retailers might be able to withstand Amazon's onslaught, according to Sarah Halzack of Bloomberg Gadfly.
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You like the freedom to think of yourself as a gadfly who orders a Manhattan one week and a Mai Tai the next, even if you aren't.
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He's a leading light of the "Intellectual Dark Web," the loose confederation of anti-PC thinkers including Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and right-wing gadfly Ben Shapiro.
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His overt and covert powers both constrained, Ky resorted to the role of political gadfly, charging Thieu with weak leadership and indifference to corruption and social decay.
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Gottheimer has tacked to the middle and Republicans have had a hard time recruiting a candidate against him; right now political gadfly Steve Lonergan is the frontrunner.
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The rumors were promoted to the media by a conservative anti-Trump gadfly who, just a year ago, used another evidence-free rumor to accomplish his political goals.
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Io and Echo were robbed of their speech, one cursed to be a cow tormented by a gadfly, and the other cursed to repeat the speech of others.
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" • Of the Rite Aid deal, Max Nisen and Tara Lachapelle of Gadfly write, "There aren't a lot of appealing options out there, and Albertsons had largely exhausted them.
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" (Gadfly) • Charley Grant writes, "With cheap credit readily available and UnitedHealth's sparkling long-term returns as an inducement, the recipe for succeeding in health care is pretty clear.
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A political gadfly who has flitted through nine minor parties in a 230-year career, his views have changed little since that day in the capital of Brasilia.
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" (Gadfly) • Justin Lahart and Spencer Jakab write, "The problem is that G.E.'s parts might be worth a lot less than even the company's sharply diminished value today.
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It regularly stages colorful protests at Ms. Merkel's rallies, but runs the risk of making itself a political gadfly rather than the kingmaker it had hoped to be.
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" (Gadfly) • Jennifer Saba writes, "Hiring a strong, independent chairwoman would reflect well on co-founders and controlling shareholders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in more ways than one.
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A recent memo Mr. Micklethwait sent to his staff outlined a long list of new endeavors, and achievements, including an opinion site, Gadfly, and a morning news service, Daybreak.
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Long dismissed as a gadfly, he has often praised the nation's military regime, which took power in 1964 as part of a coup d'état that toppled a leftist government.
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" In 2007, The New York Times described Lee as "a gadfly with accreditation" and "like a bull in the carefully diplomatic china shop of the United Nations press corp.
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Facebook co-founder says its rise reveals the fault lines destroying the "American Dream" CUNY journalism professor, blogger and social media gadfly, Jeff Jarvis, is not stranger to controversy.
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"I don't like that, you know, I don't like that," continued Trump, a former reality TV star and tabloid gadfly who has long been noted for his image consciousness.
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"The oil that greases the wheels of the Philadelphia political machine is apathy," says Larry West, a prominent civic gadfly who ran an outsider campaign for mayor in 2007.
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In the show's most chilling wink, he makes the white Harlem Renaissance gadfly Carl Van Vechten into a villainous scold who attacks the show while damning it to irrelevance.
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At BuzzFeed he earned a reputation as a gadfly whose research methods (which he keeps secret) went far beyond those of the usual reporter with a Lexis-Nexis password.
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Equal parts gadfly and cheerleader, Saltz is the playful conscience of "The Price of Everything," a role he can play partly because he has no money on the table.
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In both Arizona and Florida, she won fewer votes than Roque "Rocky" de la Fuente, a businessman and perennial gadfly candidate, won in his Republican primary challenge to Trump.
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Earlier, diGenova was a gadfly participant in the effort to create a scandal over then-Secretary of State Clinton's handling of the attack on American facilities in Benghazi, Libya.
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Davis's point was that he should not be confused for some anti-Pete gadfly and that the successes of South Bend are shared — between the mayor and the council.
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I wish the great Senegalese filmmaker (and novelist, labor organizer and political gadfly) Ousmane Sembène were still around, so he could take up the next chapter in the franchise.
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The week of Trump's inauguration, David Brock — the onetime conservative journalist turned liberal gadfly — hosted a private gathering of Democratic luminaries at Turnberry Isle, a golf resort outside Miami.
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Steve Bannon, the president's former chief strategist and a notorious media gadfly, was widely viewed as the key source for Wolff's book and his quotes estranged him from Trump's circle.
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Yes, but: This Bloomberg Gadfly column, which also uses Black Panther as a hook, explores why Congo faces high hurdles to translating its cobalt bounty into a broader public good.
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The same DIY scene that helped produce these acts, with roots sprouting from the gadfly sanctuary neighborhood of Highland Square, later fostered The Black Keys, and most recently, Time Cat.
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As David Fickling at Bloomberg Gadfly writes: Banking is a client-service business, and if clients want to trade cryptocurrencies, bankers are going to start exploring ways to help them.
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It has earned Bullard, 58, a reputation as something of a gadfly in monetary policy circles, though "The Economist" magazine once ranked him among the world's 10 most influential economists.
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Since then he has continued to act as a gadfly, educating others and encouraging them to run, among them Ms Wu. For his efforts, Mr Yao was briefly detained last year.
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To her backers she was invaluable, a British gadfly with pretty good Mandarin and passable Cantonese, who could intercede easily with those in power and could neither be silenced nor deported.
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He has crossed the GOP enough times to develop a reputation as a gadfly, while his support for an abortion ban after 22020 weeks is alienating to many potential Democratic allies.
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David Lynch is present in Lucky, too, as Howard, who sits beside Lucky at the bar where he goes for his daily bloody mary and plays the barstool gadfly and grouch.
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It birthed Al Jazeera, the gadfly satellite channel that pleased crowds with its anti-American broadcasts, even as Qatar continued to host the largest American military base in the Middle East.
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We have also thrived because we have a cultural disposition in favor of the gadfly, the contrarian, the upstart, the entrepreneur, the late bloomer, the disrupter, the activist, the social nuisance.
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"Reality is they can change that rules committee before the convention so that literally anybody could be nominated from the floor," said Gary Emineth, a former RNC member and convention rules gadfly.
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Gossip-column sightings have also placed the Crowleys at events alongside new-media luminaries like Arianna Huffington, the Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer and the Hollywood star (and tech gadfly) Ashton Kutcher.
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Exxon's head of PR, Richard Keil, talked to veteran NPR gadfly Bob Garfield of On the Media in the wake of the report, and the conversation is extremely gratifying to listen to.
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On his current tour, comedian and gadfly Hari Kondabolu has been barnstorming Trump country, hitting up college towns and cities in the red-state strongholds of Indiana, North Carolina, Missouri, and Louisiana.
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He received job offers from America, but it was becoming clear that he was by nature a gadfly—that he and Germany needed each other because they agitated each other so much.
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The banner, purchased by Robert B. Blaikie, a well-known gadfly who was unhappy with the mayor, was a visible example of how New York-style disgruntlement can follow an unfavorite son.
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" (Gadfly) • Rob Cox of Breakingviews asserts, "The about-face from Mr. Immelt to Mr. Flannery has outdone the usual kitchen-sinking that accompanies the passing from one chief executive to the next.
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She has a vocal group of online fans from the so-called "anti-imperialist" left, a loose group of writers — like the anti-Israel gadfly Max Blumenthal — who share her position on Syria.
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Many also noted that Mr Trump, a political gadfly who is on his third party, had until recently espoused different views, including on immigration, which he announced as the cornerstone of his campaign.
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Birtherism, as the challenge to Obama's citizenship came to be called, originated in Illinois with a notorious political gadfly named Andrew Martin, who declared Obama was not the person he claimed to be.
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It's a tense moment for Ms. Lipstadt, who has vowed never to debate with anyone like Mr. Irving, a notorious gadfly who has built a lucrative career by claiming the Holocaust didn't happen.
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"It's not what they show, it's what they don't show," the painter Robert Cenedella complains in "Art Bastard," Victor Kanefsky's robust, plain-talking documentary portrait of this lifelong rebel and art-world gadfly.
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Now that the gadfly is the GOP's presumptive nominee, many Republican elders are urging Trump to "pivot" to the general election by reining in his inflammatory rhetoric and studying up on the issues.
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" Critics' corner • Tara Lachapelle of Bloomberg Gadfly writes: "The best way Buffett can solidify his legacy is by returning to the M&A market with the same force and determination he's always shown.
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Mr. Amash, who serves in a safe Republican district in the Grand Rapids area, has gone from a marginal gadfly to an insurgent leader in the eyes of Mr. Trump and his supporters.
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Then there is a whole second tier to consider, including billionaire gadfly Tom Steyer , who is using his resources to assemble a mighty list by enticing Democrats to sign some symbolic petition about impeachment.
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The stock has long been beset both by the long downtrend in the commodity markets and by a gadfly anonymous researcher, called Iceberg Research, which has published numerous negative blog posts about the company.
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Instead, at least in this patch of territory near the Chinese border, the Kremlin's program got Mr. Lunin, a self-declared anarchist — though, he insists, "not an idiot who supports violence" — and lifelong gadfly.
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" Bloomberg Gadfly: "But at some point the company must stand on its own financially — and that means it needs a lot more customers, and most likely higher bills from those customers, in coming years.
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In addition to a legal sanction, free speech has flourished in the United States because we have had a longstanding cultural bias in favor of the gadfly, the muckraker, the contrarian, the social nuisance.
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But Liam Denning of Bloomberg Gadfly offers a note of caution: China knows that, as demand for oil declines in much of the developed world, ever more of Aramco's barrels must flow east anyway.
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It emerged that Mr Comey's inquiries had led him to the peculiar closeness to Russia of two of Mr Trump's sometime advisers, Roger Stone, a libertarian gadfly, and Paul Manafort, formerly the president's campaign chief.
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It's also possible the race follows a more traditional trajectory and condenses to two plausible candidates after the first four states, with Sanders, if he doesn't make that cut, lingering as a gadfly protest candidate.
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Shira Ovide at Bloomberg's Gadfly uses a valuation for Box, a public company that stores and manages content in the cloud, as a guide for how much Dropbox might be worth on the stock market.
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Critics' corner: Alphabet is following Amazon and asking investors to trust in the billions that it's spending on potential new businesses — and deserves the benefit of the doubt for now, Shia Ovide of Gadfly writes.
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Take private equity, Mr. Bonderman's industry: Gillian Tan at Bloomberg Gadfly looked at the executive ranks of TPG Capital, the firm Mr. Bonderman co-founded, and saw no women on its board or management committee.
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A contrarian with a lifelong penchant for quarreling with whatever social circle he was in, Kendall became a gadfly within this East Coast milieu, and in assailing these new targets he moved increasingly to the right.
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But during the Obama years, it was Warren who had a reputation for being willing to challenge, and even foil, a Democratic administration, while Sanders was known as an ideological gadfly but fundamentally a team player.
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Mr. Smith shows how correcting that lapse took a concerted, lengthy effort by a chain of previously unacquainted activists — a civilian gadfly, an E.P.A. whistle-blower, a concerned university professor — that seems almost miraculous in retrospect.
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But McAfee, who talks openly abut his past hard drug use and life on the lam in Guatemala, is viewed by many as a gadfly who has glommed on to the party for his own purposes.
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While often viewed as a pesky left-wing gadfly, he is also known to reach across the aisle, working on legislation with Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Senator John McCain of Arizona, both Republicans.
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William Monroe Trotter, who edited the Boston-based black weekly newspaper The Guardian in the first three decades of the 20th century, shows up in the biographies of his contemporaries as a gadfly: radical, outspoken and indefatigable.
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Critic's corner, from Brook Sutherland of Gadfly: It is now abundantly apparent that the previous management team led by Jeff Immelt had little handle on the comings and goings of all the pieces of this sprawling conglomerate.
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Billie Eilish, the year's most vivid young breakthrough, received six, as did Lil Nas X, who at this time last year was still a social-media gadfly looking for a meme-assisted breakthrough into the music world.
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But Jeremy Stone, like his father, was a gadfly, and in recent years he helped to perpetuate his father's memory by establishing an I. F. Stone website and helping to raise money for a documentary about him.
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Sharpe, a podcast host and classical music gadfly, has decided to make his very first documentary about the orchestra's return to performing, their first show back at Rikers Island Prison, the famously brutal New York City correctional facility.
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Where most people would have left town, Richard Poulin opened Middle Earth in 1969 "as an F.U." to the local cops and proceeded to spend the next 50 years becoming the area's most effective environmental gadfly and campaigner.
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Today, a group of conservative activists — including former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and longtime partly gadfly Richard Viguerie — called onMcConnell and his entire leadership team to step down and reserved their greatest ire for the leader himself.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Evelyn Davis, who became known as a corporate gadfly for her attendance and relentless questioning of top executives at scores of U.S. annual shareholder meetings over a period of decades, has died at age 89.
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Mr. Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, was deeply unpopular for many of his 16 years in the House of Representatives, where he bucked his own leadership and pelted bills with amendments, many of the gadfly variety.
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But his father never endorsed him, and he gained a reputation more as a gadfly — during campaign forums, he stridently attacked other candidates, including for their positions on health care and campaign finance — than as a credible candidate.
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Those, among other hefty issues, will be taken up by the ambitious (and welcome) MoMA show, curated by Paola Antonelli, senior curator of the department of architecture and design at the museum — and a seasoned design world gadfly.
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Roger Stone, noted political gadfly and Trump friend and quasi-adviser, has acknowledged that he exchanged Twitter messages with Guccifer 2.0, the hacker allegedly behind the leaking of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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By May 2006, Bethea's team of attorneys, eventually including prominent gadfly and alleged criminal Michael Avenatti, were preparing to appeal Walter's decision on grounds that the judge had overstepped his authority in deciding what a reasonable jury could find.
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The possibly bad news: Mark Zuckerberg said changes to the News Feed had cut 26 million hours a day from the time users spent on it (as Shira Ovide of Gadfly points out, that's about 2 minutes less each).
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But a Twitter gadfly working under the pseudonym Mujtahidd, who has successfully predicted some major royal news in the past, broadcast to his 1.7 million followers details about the construction, luxury cars and five-star hotels for the entourage.
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And, according to legend, when an actor playing Socrates made fun of the philosophic gadfly from the stage, the real Socrates rose from his seat and pointed to his own face to confirm that, indeed, the likeness was good.
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And the fast-rising Scottish actor James McArdle, playing the eponymous social gadfly at the frantic center of Chekhov's early play "Platonov," exhibited charm to spare as a libidinous schoolmaster who finds himself fending off women at every turn.
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Then, as the spinoff headed into its final episodes, professional franchise gadfly and spoiler Reality Steve tweeted that he was "confident" in reporting that the new Bachelor would in fact be Rachel's runner-up, the supposedly engagement-shy Peter Kraus.
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But a gadfly named Michael Weinstein of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation keeps putting this on the ballot, and this time he wants to allow any state resident to bring a civil lawsuit against porn producers if they view condom-free content.
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"The one good fortune in my life was that I got to know John Cage when he was considered more a gadfly than a guru and Joseph Beuys when he was still an eccentric hermit in Dusseldorf," Paik once said.
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In the course of a court hearing on a long-running lawsuit over the National Security Agency's (NSA) collection powers, conservative legal gadfly Larry Klayman accused the government of switching up the legal justifications it uses to gather Americans' data.
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While he has been able to work with his colleagues to successfully pass amendments here and there and help his constituents, in Congress Sanders has mostly been a gadfly, trying to push the national conversation, and the Democratic Party, to the left.
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The company's best path forward may be the one floated by pseudonymous Silicon Valley gadfly Startup L. Jackson: use Twitter's 300 million or so core users to bootstrap a network of related but different apps, eventually amassing Facebook-like scale in the aggregate.
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Be smart: A weekend piece in Bloomberg's Gadfly analysis section says the "nightmare scenario" for OPEC would be data emerging soon that shows a cut in projected global oil demand growth, which would be the other shoe to drop after surging U.S output.
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Roem's message was two-fold: Marshall is so focused on social issues that he neglects local issues affecting constituents such as congestion and jobs and he has become such a gadfly that he lacks clout to bring home bacon for the district.
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" (Gadfly) • The analyst Rich Greenfield writes: "CBS needs far greater scale and a recombination with Viacom is the most logical first step, albeit only a first step with several follow-on strategic moves needed (acquisitions or merger with an even larger entity).
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" But Shira Ovide of Bloomberg Gadfly says that the deal shows Uber doesn't know what its own future looks like: "Far from being 'asset light,' Uber's purchase suggests the company in a few years may own a rapidly depreciating fleet of cars.
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He said throughout the campaign that he would be a gadfly, not an obedient follower of the party line laid down by Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, whose allies spent heavily in Alabama trying to help Mr. Strange keep his seat.
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Bulls and Bears • Mark Cuban probably shouldn't quit his day job as the Dallas Mavericks' owner and a political gadfly to become an actor, but it makes absolute sense that he'd be Axe's confidant with regard to the New York Giants bid.
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Wonderfully played as an abrasive Cockney teen testing the limits of everyone around him, Thale is both a gadfly and a scapegoat for the ship, and he makes characters and viewers alike question whether what they're seeing is real or just his mind games.
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Several more women used The Lefsetz Letter, an emailed newsletter by Bob Lefsetz, a former lawyer who is the industry's full-time gadfly, as a forum to accuse Mr. Walk, anonymously, of various forms of harassment, including sending explicit pictures and inappropriate text messages.
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She also sold a middle-grade novel, coming in 2020; signed up as a consulting producer on W. Kamau Bell's CNN series, "United Shades of America"; and began hosting a new podcast, "Bughouse Square," inspired by the archives of another Chicago gadfly, Studs Terkel.
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Mr. Miller, the middle child in a financially comfortable Jewish family, plainly relished the attention and notoriety of being the city's red-hued exception, according to classmates — some of whom recalled chuckling at, or at least shrugging off, the antics of their resident gadfly.
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William Monroe Trotter, who edited the Boston-based black weekly newspaper The Guardian in the first three decades of the 20th century, shows up in the biographies of contemporaries like Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois as a gadfly: radical, outspoken and indefatigable.
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Mr. Pannella was an unconventional gadfly who dominated the quixotic, cultlike Radical Party, which he co-founded in 19303, and who managed to gain a disproportionate amount of political influence in Italy — far greater than the party's rank-and-file representation in Parliament would seem to warrant.
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Louie GohmertLouis (Louie) Buller GohmertLouie Gohmert's exchange with Robert Mueller revealed an uneasy relationship Conservatives call on Pelosi to cancel August recess Mueller will be remembered for his weak testimony, not his shocking report MORE, the GOP gadfly and frequent cable TV guest, has a challenger.
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At first, Ms. Warren had wanted the No. 2 job, according to a person briefed on conversations with her operation, but she has since embraced her role as one of the Senate's most outspoken liberal voices and a potential gadfly to a Clinton administration if Mrs.
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His predecessor and the founding editor, Min Hogg, was a formidable figure whose father was the ear, nose and throat physician to the Queen Mother, and who ran with a bohemian London "in" crowd, including the actor Rupert Everett and the social gadfly and decorator Nicky Haslam.
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If Kushner is the young, buttoned-down and stiff-lipped operator in Trump's inner orbit, then Stone is the bullish and flamboyant right-wing gadfly, always a phone call away from Trump or anyone else who wants to talk, and a résumé that dates back to the Nixon years.
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Born in Manhattan — he said last year that he was taking steps to renounce his United States citizenship, for tax purposes — Mr. Johnson is an accomplished author, a gadfly and, quite possibly, a candidate to succeed Mr. Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party and as prime minister.
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A former jazz drummer and stand-up comic who was later a writer, campus lecturer and filmmaker, Mr. Abel was best known as a perennial public gadfly, a self-appointed calling that combined the verbal pyrotechnics of a 19th-century flimflam man with acute 20th-century media savvy.
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More what Time Warner and its brands — HBO, Turner, Warner Brothers — offer AT&T, from Tara Lachapelle of Gadfly: There's no question that it will help make sense of Randall Stephenson's expansion of AT&T into the pay-TV market and improve AT&T's positioning and value proposition.
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But Short is also responsible for such indelible, vaguely disquieting weirdos as the cross-eyed Vegas entertainer Jackie Rogers Jr. (a blend of Liza Minnelli and Sammy Davis Jr.) and that unctuous butterball Jiminy Glick, a fact-deprived Hollywood gossip gadfly modeled after syndicated '70s gossip show host Skip E. Lowe.
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An opposition lawmaker and former minister, Ben Bradshaw, called last month for a British government investigation into claims of Russian interference, adding that there were "questions" about Arron Banks, an insurance company owner and political gadfly who gave heavy financial backing to one of the campaign groups on the leave side.
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Given how incredibly passionate Americans are in their support or outrage regarding the players' protest (there doesn't seem to be much reaction in between), particularly toward Kaepernick for starting it, many have wondered why Nike would risk teaming up with such a social gadfly and whether it was a good move.
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It was the black bloc who set a limo on fire in DC during Donald Trump's inauguration, it was the black bloc who punched white supremacist Richard Spencer to great acclaim and controversy, it was the black bloc who rioted in Berkeley to protest the presence of far-right gadfly Milo Yiannopoulos.
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The bigger picture Tara Lachapelle of Gadfly writes: At the end of the day, any company is better off — and I do mean financially better off — without someone who uses their power for inappropriate sexual behavior that makes the workplace a threatening place for colleagues and stymies women's ability to climb the ranks.
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Before launching his campaign, in June, 2015, he had been a Democrat (for most of his life), a potential Reform Party candidate (during a brief flirtation with Presidential politics, in 2000), and, starting in 2011, a kind of conservative gadfly, obsessed with the fallacious idea that Obama was not born in America.
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Whether McCarthy is destined be remembered as the midwife of a new day in American politics or merely as a brilliant gadfly of the old, it is clear that American politics still reflects the dedication to reforming political processes and limiting executive power that was the common denominator of his public career.
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It's not that literal a dance, but there's a sense that the first half is about conflict and the second half is about finding peace, and the agent for this is a child who's running around in the dance like a gadfly — a child leading the adults to a more enlightened place.
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Midi-cholrians are fake of course, but the science gadfly known as Neuroskeptic had some obviously fake reports about them published in science journals recently, in as part of an ongoing effort to expose "predatory journals," which publish for a fee, ostensibly after vetting their findings, but in reality after no review whatsoever.
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" The most cleareyed image in Mr. Gruen's memoir is very likely that of Mr. Gruen himself — "writer, critic, journalist, bon vivant, gadfly, busybody, father, husband, queer, neurotic workaholic," as he memorably put it, going on to describe himself as "handmaiden to the stars, reveler in reflected glory and needy intimate of the super-famous.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads GRENOBLE, France — Antoine de Galbert, the peckish and puckish-looking French art collector who recently closed his gadfly Maison Rouge art space in Paris is back on the scene with Memories of Travel: The Antoine de Galbert Collection, a show of his cross-generational collection at the Musée de Grenoble.
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When Ocasio-Cortez joined a green activist sit-in at Pelosi's office in November, Ocasio-Cortez struck a cordial tone and played the role of friendly gadfly: "We need to tell her that we've got her back in showing and pursuing the most progressive energy agenda that this country has ever seen," she told the activists.
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It's a light-hearted moment shrouded in what Kasich knows is his challenging reality, one he openly talked about from interview to interview, event to event, all day long: As much as Kasich is applauded by anti-Trump forces for refusing to endorse the President, being a Trump gadfly makes a lot of Kasich's fellow Republicans really angry at him.
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Mr. Nygard is among the more outré figures strutting a red carpet that tends also to feature Oscar royalty (Jon Voight, Shirley Jones, Martin Landau), actor stalwarts, former sitcom parents (Alan Thicke), a gadfly civil rights lawyer (Gloria Allred), a man who went to the moon (Buzz Aldrin), and qualified eye candy — because a party without beautiful women is a dud, Mr. Lozzi said.
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The indictment against Stone — a notorious political operative and gadfly through the decades who worked on the Trump campaign in its early days and continued to move in his orbit before and after — lays out in minute detail the suspected lies and other misdeeds that have made him the latest Trump associate ensnared in the special counsel investigation, led by Robert Mueller, which will enter its third year this summer.
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Another astrophysicist, Jason Wright from Penn State, summarizes his own opinions in his own blog:As I said, if I were the LIGO team I would be annoyed by the episode, but the things that would annoy me the least are that the world showed an intense interest in my work, that I had to explain my science to that interested audience, and that I got to show up a gadfly on a big stage.
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Yet Moana has heard the ocean calling to her since she was a tiny child (Moana means ocean), and though she loves her home and family, she also longs to see what's beyond the reef, singing her conflict in "How Far I'll Go." Her grandmother, a bit of a gadfly, gently nudges her teenage granddaughter toward a fuller discovery of her people's heritage: They were once voyagers, people who sailed the ocean.
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From Flynn, who was forced to resign as national security adviser after he repeatedly misled Pence and others about his interactions with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, to Carter Page, a one-time Trump foreign policy adviser, to Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, to political gadfly -- and sometimes Trump adviser -- Roger Stone, there have been a slew of reports that raise questions about the appropriateness of the interactions between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
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Elsewhere in the festival are a restoration of André de Toth's rarely shown "None Shall Escape" (on Saturday), a remarkable 1944 feature regarded as groundbreaking among Hollywood productions of the era for showing the Nazis' systematic murder of Jews; and a tribute to the cinephile gadfly Pierre Rissient, who died in May and was instrumental in championing the directorial careers of Clint Eastwood ("Play Misty for Me," on Wednesday) and the Filipino filmmaker Lino Brocka ("Manila in the Claws of Light," on Wednesday).
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"Clinton is fighting to hang on against a 74-year old gadfly socialist from Vermont who has managed to keep pace with her fundraising prowess with an army of small donors," he writes in the memo just days before the caucuses in Iowa, where Clinton is looking to stem a late surge by Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE.
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The children of the Revolution did not only live in the past — they loved it for being the past and, like most readers and writers of historical fiction, tended to focus on lost causes: Scott's Scots, Boussenard's Boers, Cooper's Mohicans, Sienkiewicz's Poles, Mayne Reid's Seminoles, Mérimée's Corsicans, Pushkin's Pugachev, Gogol's Taras Bulba, Stendhal's Napoleon and everything Dumas's Musketeers pledged to preserve, from Her Majesty's honor to the head of Charles I. Even the great socialist classics, Raffaello Giovagnoli's "Spartacus" and Ethel Voynich's "The Gadfly," were about Romantic self-sacrifice.
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