He also played the rainmaker in "110 in the Shade," a musical version of N. Richard Nash's play "The Rainmaker," on Broadway in 1963.
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No Rainmaker, no Tombstone Piledriver, just a simple rana pin.
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Bryce Covert Leslie Moonves is a rainmaker and a kingmaker.
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The Rainmaker performance was a first for me in Cambodia.
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More recently, Morgan Stanley's top rainmaker, Paul Taubman, left the firm.
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He played Deck Shifflet in the legal drama "The Rainmaker" (1997).
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I liked the costume and style, and I loved the Rainmaker Clothesline.
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"Very few companies are 100 percent compliant," said Alex, chief executive of Rainmaker.
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D.C. Rainmaker, shares his picks for everyone from casual walkers to Olympic athletes.
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More recently, a major firm rainmaker, Barbara Van Gelder, left for another firm.
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DC Rainmaker recommends this model because it balances value and all-around performance.
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Russia: Putin has been trying to position himself as the rainmaker in Syria.
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So, I was living in DC at the time and Rainmaker was taken.
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Okada reversed it into a spinning Tombstone, then hit a devastating Rainmaker to retain.
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"It's a highly disorganized storm, primarily a rainmaker," CNN senior meteorologist Taylor Ward said.
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Was Rainmaker a nickname of yours growing up, since your name is Ray Maker?
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As our new president is well aware, he's a rainmaker and a troublemaker for media.
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Bank of America has poached a top rainmaker for financial services companies from Morgan Stanley.
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Anyway, so, someone was up on this blog post on DC Rainmaker not long ago.
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"This is going to be a major rainmaker," Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner told CNN Saturday morning.
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How does a university respond to this when a harasser is a rainmaker for the university?
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Some of you may know who Ray is or know him by his blog, DC Rainmaker.
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Maker is better known by his online pseudonym D.C. Rainmaker (an old Blogspot username that stuck).
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Wall Street should take that in stride, remembering that the Federal Reserve is the only real rainmaker.
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That dynamic scuttled European rainmaker Andrea Orcel's plan to join Banco Santander as CEO earlier this year.
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Each one is named after a power position, including Alpha, Mastermind, Innovator, Visionary, Game Changer, and Rainmaker.
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Soon she's plucked from workplace obscurity by the rainmaker Marcel Castonguay, who brings her onto his team.
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Florence is expected to also be a rainmaker, with totals of 35 inches possible in some areas.
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Goldman set up its JV with a swagger in 2004, partnering with famed Chinese rainmaker Fang Fenglei.
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HR departments often defend the boss—especially if he is seen as a rainmaker, as Mr Weinstein was.
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I fell in love the second I saw the reinvented Okada as The Rainmaker in 2012 or so.
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Okada came back and attempted another Rainmaker, and Omega pulled off a One Winged Angel out of nowhere.
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Wang's first startup, RentJungle, was an apartment search engine, which was acquired in 2014 by The Rainmaker Group.
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"It's definitely the biggest rainmaker we've had," Thornton said, adding that another storm would replace it on Wednesday.
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The appointments are part of a sweeping reshuffle in which some senior executives will take on "rainmaker" roles.
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"We called him the rainmaker," said Michael Rosen, a partner who handled many of the firm's organized-crime cases.
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Bashfully sensual as a bride, she writhes through her transformation into the rainmaker as if she were giving birth.
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To understand why P. syringae are thought to be the rainmaker bacteria, it's helpful to remember how water actually works.
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And on the other, we have a protest-busting oil baron who many owners consider to be the NFL's rainmaker.
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Shibata shrugged off a stiff Rainmaker clothesline from Okada, looked at him, and full-on headbutt him, forehead to forehead.
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It still doesn't look like a big rainmaker, but we could see a steadier period of activity at some point.
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Hurricane Maria was also a prolific rainmaker, dumping more than 40 inches of water in some areas, causing mudslides and widespread flooding.
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Until one or more of the younger players becomes a rainmaker, he said, the death of the Big Four remains a forecast.
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Perhaps by way of compensation, once he was out in the civilian world, Flynn wanted to show that he was a rainmaker.
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Eventually, Okada took control back, hitting a pair of Rainmaker lariats, only for Omega to reverse a third into a German suplex.
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New York (CNN Business)Saudi Aramco is trying to pull off a monster IPO that will be a major rainmaker for Wall Street.
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In the grand scheme of things, the big story out of this is it's going to be a rainmaker more than anything else.
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One agent or broker on the team might have a subspecialty in marketing, another in staging; another might be the rainmaker-in-chief.
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This week, we're answering everything you could possibly want to know about health and fitness trackers with Ray Maker of DC Rainmaker fame.
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But in Laurie Loewenstein's Depression-era mystery, DEATH OF A RAINMAKER (Kaylie Jones/Akashic, paper, $16.95), that effort ends when the man is murdered.
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Even then, Dr. Dahlberg knew that any investigation by Ohio State of what he called "a rainmaker" for the university would face serious obstacles.
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There are six dancers, half of whom wear a "Rainmaker" — a poncho emblazoned with an upside-down triangle of golden symbols on the back.
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In the center of the exhibition space, next to the Rainmaker ponchos, the installation also included jewelry by Yonaga and Khmer artist Seavyi Yonn.
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Many others, but a few of my favorite episodes hands down were when I spoke with Ray Maker of DC Rainmaker fame about wearables.
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I mean, every once in a while people make, certainly, the joke of Rainmaker versus Ray Maker, but it wasn't something I thought about.
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The image of Okada exhaustedly hanging onto Tanahashi's wrist, a prerequisite for his Rainmaker clothesline, is one of the pro wrestling images of the decade.
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Recently Ray Maker, of the DC Rainmaker blog, joined the Too Embarrassed to Ask podcast and we geeked out over wearables for over an hour.
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For Kasich (with a mere $2.5 million on hand) and Christie ($1.1 million), counting on the Granite State as a rainmaker is historically ill-advised.
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The bank's founder, former JP Morgan rainmaker Ian Hannam, has been a long-time investor in Afghanistan through the Afghan Gold and Minerals Company (AGMC).
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Harvey is an unusual tropical cyclone, one that will bring different concerns to different areas vulnerable to such a huge rainmaker with incredibly powerful winds.
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The setting is a lauded but financially ailing stage production of N. Richard Nash's 1954 play, "The Rainmaker," whose cast is a hairbreadth from unemployment.
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Okada did the same in attempting a Rainmaker, a call-back to last year's Dominion match where it was Omega collapsing to avoid the move.
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Okada, too, kept the waist locked and attempted a Rainmaker, and Omega fired right back with a snap German and then another brutal reverse hurricanrana.
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But she also wondered aloud whether trouble had finally found Mr. Weinstein because he was no longer the rainmaker and hitmaker he had once been.
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Tony Podesta, the longtime Democratic rainmaker on K Street, is stepping away from the Podesta Group, a lobbying firm he founded almost 2628 years ago.
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In 2012, for example, Michael S. Klein, a former rainmaker for Citigroup, played a critical role in the long-awaited merger of Glencore International and Xstrata.
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Calling his collection "Future Heritage" seems hubristic until one considers that Mr. Jones's instincts and design chops have rendered him a real rainmaker for the brand.
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But why did it take rainmaker attorneys to educate a jury from square one all the way to the point of ringing up a jackpot verdict?
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A rainmaker is usually a senior partner at a law firm whose role is to drum up business by virtue of who he or she knows.
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What Palihapitiya didn't realize, however, was that Hamid – viewed by most LPs as the fund's major rainmaker – was already deep into discussions to leave for Kleiner Perkins.
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The private meeting, which CNN was given exclusive access to, was held in the law offices of Tom Rath, longtime Republican National Committeeman and New Hampshire rainmaker.
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Go4Splatoon is a 4v4 tournament where teams will compete in best-of-three matches with game modes always played in this order: Splat Zones, Tower Control and Rainmaker.
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Aurel Bacs, the Phillips consultant who is currently considered the sector's star rainmaker, predicts that values for vintage models won't decrease and that average transaction prices will go up.
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Mr. Heller has never been the sort of rainmaker for the state that Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate minority leader from 2015 until early this year, was.
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The group will also include healthcare rainmaker Steven Frank and several existing vice chairs such as London-based Harry Hampson and New York-based Ben Berinstein, the source said.
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This year, however, Alex's Mumbai-based consultancy firm Rainmaker is witnessing its sharpest growth ever as companies quickly try to educate employees about anti-sexual harassment laws and company policies.
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A Reuters witness said lush pine forest was reduced to blackened stumps as aircraft dumped red dry extinguishing powder on to the flames, followed by helicopters equipped with 'rainmaker' buckets.
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After landfall, Willa is expected to weaken quickly as it runs into the mountains, and it will be a rainmaker by the time it crosses the US-Mexico border Wednesday.
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The United States has a booming commercial space industry, and SpaceX, the rainmaker of the industry, has its own plans to build a giant rocket and fly tourists around the moon.
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For decades, employers have quietly paid off or shunted away the powerless girls and boys, treating it as the cost of doing business, to hang on to their high-powered rainmaker.
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The collaboration was proposed by Rainmaker Entertainment, which produced the film alongside Blockade Entertainment, and is also in the process of turning another PlayStation franchise into a film with Sly Cooper.
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After you load your grounds into the measuring cup and put the lid on, the Rainmaker technology evenly distributes water and brews the coffee right on your counter or in the fridge.
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Meteorologists say Harvey is a such a rainmaker because the storm is barely moving and hasn't pushed inland, allowing it to collect new moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, National Geographic reports.
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The Category 3 storm will quickly weaken over the next 24 hours as it makes its way across the Sierra Madre range and becomes a rainmaker for northern Mexico and Texas on Wednesday.
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That fact was not lost on The Rachel Divide director Laura Brownson (Lemon, The Rainmaker), who shot the film over two years, beginning just over a month after Dolezal's "outing" as a white woman.
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They were in line to meet Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tetsuya Naito, Matt & Nick Jackson, and a fedora-clad Kazuchika "The Rainmaker" Okada, the stars of New Japan Pro Wrestling, the country's biggest professional wrestling company.
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The move, first reported by Reuters, represents the most high-profile hire of a rainmaker by Paul Weiss since it poached top M&A partner Scott Barshay from Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP last year.
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The 38-year-old real estate rainmaker, who is a former professional surfer with blue eyes and uncombed dirty-blond hair, preferred to stroll down the middle of the street instead of the sidewalk.
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Several people with knowledge of Mr. Cohen's involvement with Squire Patton Boggs said he had been brought on as a sort of rainmaker because of his business contacts in the United States and abroad.
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But after a wedding, when the drought comes — cue sad music — the plot narrows in on an individual, the daughter of the rainmaker, who must take over her father's role and search for a solution.
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Playing A.J., the store manager who pines after Tyler's character, Whitworth would go on to play a supporting role in 1997's The Rainmaker and also had a recurring role on CSI: Miami, which starred Cochrane.
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Graham the painter is often lost in Graham the rainmaker, a situation that isn't helped by the essential strangeness of his art, which is best known for portraits of cross-eyed women with wildly ballooning hairdos.
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"Equity" follows veteran investment banker Naomi (Anna Gunn) as she fights to be seen as a rainmaker at her firm, bringing a tech start-up public with the help of junior banker Erin (Sarah Megan Thomas).
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It was a small but important piece of physical storytelling: Okada's last bit of strength was to hang on to that wrist, no matter how hard Tanahashi fought, to set up for his finisher, the Rainmaker Clothesline.
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You just ensure that the release valve is locked, add the amount of coffee you want to use, pop the rainmaker top on, and pour the right amount of water over the grounds in a circular motion.
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Stephen Schwarzman, the Wall Street rainmaker, took the stage at a black-tie gala in Manhattan in January to present an award to a Chinese corporate behemoth that has become a major player in global deal making.
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Companies - large and small - are now approaching headhunters, law firms and boutique consultancies such as Rainmaker to ensure they provide a safer workplace for women, become better equipped to handle complaints and run proper checks on prospective employees.
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With much turnover in the Louisiana congressional delegation in recent years, and with a Democratic governor at the helm, Mr. Scalise is widely viewed as his party's biggest elected star in the state, and a rainmaker for other lawmakers.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - The recent departure of UBS's key rainmaker Andrea Orcel may have left some observers convinced that boss Sergio Ermotti now has an alluring opportunity to shrink the investment bank in favour of more highly rated wealth management.
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Under these agreements, candidates share some of the money collected at fundraisers with the party, which effectively gives the party a star rainmaker and allows donors to legally give more money than if they were contributing to the candidate alone.
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His early records— Rainmaker (1969), Window (1970), and his most successful, Fully Qualified Survivor (1970)—re-imagined folk music as an intersection of jazz, blues, rock, and primitive guitar music, a form of playing untethered to traditional form and technique.
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"It hasn't even been that long, but H.R. departments are recognizing that it's very important to take women seriously in their claims and to not rush to judgment and the protection of some exalted genius rainmaker male leader," she said.
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So, I've got DC Rainmaker in the studio and Kara's not here, because I think her head was going to explode if we talked about wearables anymore, but Ray Maker runs one of the best tech and fitness blogs out there.
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After the two stars traded finishers and counters back and forth with a number of breathless false finishes, Naito appeared to have done it—he'd survived a Tombstone Piledriver and reversed Okada's Rainmaker lariat into his Destino finisher, and the champion looked out.
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PJT - founded by former Morgan Stanley rainmaker Paul Taubman in 2015 - is expected to receive a green light to start the process later this month, the source said, and has so far handled inbound interest from investors in the United States and Europe.
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Hopu is one of the longest-established private equity firms in China, founded in 2007 by Chinese rainmaker Fang Fenglei, who is also the non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs' investment banking China joint venture, and Richard Ong, now head of RRJ Capital.
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Harold Ford Jr., a former congressman turned Wall Street rainmaker, was fired by the financial services firm Morgan Stanley in recent days "for conduct inconsistent with our values and in violation of our policies," the company said in a statement on Thursday.
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A legal recruitment group on Tuesday sued Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Massachusetts federal court, accusing the law firm of using its services to recruit a rainmaker for its mergers and acquisitions practice but then refusing to pay its more than $2.5 million fee.
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It is looking to juice its growth further by hiring a new rainmaker to head its M&A franchise, leading a team of bankers that has grown by 40 percent over the past five years, outstripping rivals even as M&A surged across the board.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 83%Summary: "The Rainmaker" is a drama centered around a plucky law-school graduate Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon) who takes on a legal battle with an insurance company on behalf of a young woman (Claire Danes) whose son is battling cancer.
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We assess that he is calling the shots and will also seek to try to cement his role as the rainmaker in Syria while continuing to supply support to the regime, including through Russian mercenaries who have clashed with US soldiers on the ground.
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With his reputation as a major rainmaker in Los Angeles, Chu had built a dream team of legal talent at the California firm where he was managing partner: Irell & Manella, which in 2009 staffed as many as 220 lawyers and was best known for its litigation prowess.
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A federal judge in Boston on Thursday told a legal recruiting group suing Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US over allegations that the law firm used its services to hire a rainmaker but then refused to pay it that it must show why the case belongs in federal court.
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China Renaissance, which has advised on some of the country's biggest technology deals and is led by famed rainmaker Bao Fan, was hurt by the stock market performance of some recent large initial public offerings (IPOs) which signalled trouble for that line of its business, some analysts said.
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Putin positions himself as rainmaker in Syria as violence continues This weekend Russia agreed not to veto a UN Security Council resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria, humanitarian access to Eastern Ghouta, and evacuation of the wounded after the civilian death toll reached over 500.
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Cheng, who favors rectangle-framed glasses and polo shirts, also has an astute eye for talent - such as hiring foreign-educated rainmaker and ex-Goldman Sachs banker Jean Liu - and managed Didi's relationship with major investors Alibaba and Tencent, who are bitter internet rivals, say those who have worked with him.
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The obvious take here is that the chairman of NBC News, Andrew Lack, made a cold economic calculation: Mr. Lauer might have been a rainmaker for the network, but keeping him on was no longer worth it in the face of potential lawsuits, damage to the brand and lower ratings.
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Last year, when Peter Kenyon — a former chief executive of both Chelsea and Manchester United and now a kind of itinerant soccer rainmaker — approached the English club Wolverhampton Wanderers with a takeover offer from Fosun, the Chinese conglomerate, he outlined a clear vision of how the deal would benefit both parties.
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Playlist: "One" / "21974" / "Good Old Desk" / "Cuddly Toy" / "Together" / "I Said Goodbye To Me" / "Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore" / "Rainmaker" / "Me and My Arrow" / "The Lottery Song" / "Lean On Me" Nilsson was gifted with an astonishing three-and-a-half-octave voice, at least before he wrecked it with booze, coke, and screaming contests.
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Read more: Ex-Morgan Stanley rainmaker Greg Fleming's new firm is putting in place 'the building blocks' to reach $100 billion in assets — and it's just made its biggest move yetLast year, the Wall Street veteran Greg Fleming joined the firm and said he wanted to expand the multifamily office's capabilities into investment banking and other areas.
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Also arriving: "Under the Silver Lake" (July 1), "Peterloo" (July 3), "Gone Baby Gone" (July 12), "Comicstaan" Season 13 (July 12), "All or Nothing" Season 4 (July 19), "Hellboy" (July 23), "Arctic" (July 31), "Corpse Bride" (July 31), "Hackers" (July 31), "The Rainmaker" (July 31), "Rosemary's Baby" (July 31), "Star Trek: First Contact" (July 13), "Twelve Monkeys" (July 31) and "Urban Cowboy" (July 31).
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You have to be a subscriber to get access to some of that content, but it also seems to be windowed, in a sense that, last month's issue, there was an article about Ray Maker — who we've actually had on a Recode podcast before, you should all go listen to it — but D.C. Rainmaker, who reviews all kinds of outdoor fitness gear, but then that wasn't online.
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