I finagled telephone time with Elton John, a friend of Mr. Michele's.
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Both men, nevertheless, have finagled their way into the upper levels of American power.
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He's also finagled himself a starring role in a tribute to the film classic, Billy Elliott.
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When you buy one you believe that you've found a secret treasure and finagled a good deal.
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The photographers finagled a commission from the New York City Parks Commissioner to document the city's parks.
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Afterwards, I finagled more money from my dad and bought the cast album cassette at the theater.
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By making things automatic, I've essentially finagled my budget so that my savings goals are a fixed cost.
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Walt Whitman often sat in the Senate gallery, and Anthony Trollope finagled a seat when he visited Washington.
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The highly attractive agent you finagled with at Movement is ignoring your WhatsApp messages, and for good reason.
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He then asked her to take him to the hospital where he finagled his way into getting more drugs.
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George Bancroft finagled Polk's nomination by making sure that Polk's name wasn't mentioned until the third day of the Convention.
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He also became extra baggage in Denver the minute the Broncos finagled an idiotic contract for former Seahawks tackle Russell Okung.
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A Nashville college student at the time, Ballerini somehow finagled a backstage Opry pass, and she ran into Underwood in a hallway.
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Farmer also taught them to administer medication, a fair amount of which he finagled from Harvard and smuggled over in his suitcase.
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And so, the idea of flying where you now drive finagled its way into the "umm, so this could really be real" column.
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That same spring, 3,000 miles away in Oregon, a former aerospace engineer finagled a meeting with the young CEO of an upstart footwear company.
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Armed with broad agreements with AWS, VMware finagled its way to be a key bridge between on prem and the monstrously popular Amazon cloud.
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Lawmakers then finagled a few changes to update the bill and try to appeal to more Republicans who had issues with the original version.
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I bought a Mac, got a Gmail account (cc'd) and finagled the cell number conversion law such that [his personal cell phone number] is still mine.
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She'd finagled 17 members of our family into the US resettlement program when Vietnam fell to the communists after the withdrawal of American forces in 1975.
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Still, whatever tax savings Trump has finagled over the years are dwarfed by the huge tax break he plans to give wealthy Americans if he wins.
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If FBI officials finagled to spare Clinton from criminal charges, that could have had a hundred times more impact on Election Day 2016 than 13 Russian trolls.
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He slips into Potala, joining pilgrims who have finagled an audience with the Dalai Lama, ''a child of eight with a bright and fair complexion and rosy cheeks.
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Mr. Zaheer, the Jalalabad teacher, ever-confident, finagled his way into the Turkish Embassy in Kabul, where a sympathetic guard slipped him the email address of a Turkish diplomat.
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There is a truck, finagled by mysterious commander Joseph Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) and others, that will take June, baby Holly/Nicole, and Emily (Alexis Bledel) to the Great White North.
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In fact, I'm not really sure how Blake, a British musician known for gloomy electronics, finagled his way onto this track, and I say this as a James Blake fan.
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She finagled her own election to the speakership, threw some subtle cold water on Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's ambitious "Green New Deal" and tamped down aggressive talk of impeaching President Trump.
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The film tells the story of how Kroc finagled his way into Mac and Dick McDonald's hamburger business and managed to turn it into the biggest fast food brand in the world.
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It turns out that Julie's father finagled to get his daughter into the "better" school, in a wealthier community, because the one for which she was properly zoned had no music program.
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And yet … Fox News has learned that officials are now probing a report of a possible second interloper who may have finagled their way into the press pen awaiting the President on Tuesday.
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Before I could come up with a rescue plan, a security guard who worked down the block rushed over with an extra-long metal pole and finagled the shoe out of the tree.
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As would these ace new recipes Oliver Strand finagled out of the Los Angeles chef Sara Kramer: for chicken and tomato salad with sumac and herbs; and for cucumbers with labneh and cherries.
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The concern intensified last October after a member of the public finagled his way into a giant press scrum outside the Senate chamber, jeered at the president and hurled Russian flags in his path.
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Later, when her former show's star finagled a job as president of the United States, he gave Omarosa a job in the White House, making her communications director for the White House's Office of Public Liaison.
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Almost everyone I've asked about the topic of login-sharing has some story about how they finagled free shit out of someone they barely know, no longer know, or wish they never knew in the first place.
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I'd done one good year of research and then took a leave of absence, something I finagled through Jerry, my therapist, who wrote a letter to the dean describing the paralyzing depths of my attention deficit disorder.
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He experimented with a gold velvet-brocade jacket, rhinestone earrings, a plaid vest, and a black cap bearing an insignia of a crossed golf club and fork, which he had finagled from Jack Nicklaus's Golden Bear Grill.
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About New York In need of space for a food pantry in Long Island City, Queens, a few years ago, Sister Tesa Fitzgerald finagled control of an old storeroom on the grounds of St. Rita's Roman Catholic Church.
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Although the Yankees finagled a first-inning run largely on Cotton's early-game jitters, they were held hitless for five and two-thirds innings and, after Holliday's home run, managed just one more hit, a single by Starlin Castro.
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I was of two minds about this puzzle: On the one hand, we have some very nice entries, like BLACK FRIDAY, WAITING AREA, BED AND BREAKFAST, WINE STEWARD, ANDREA DORIA, CYBERMONDAY, FINAGLED (always a fun word), TAKES LEAVE and RADAR BLIPS.
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Ah, yes, a tiny energy company from Whitefish with two employees — three if you count Zinke's kid when he was an intern on a side project — finagled a $300 million, no-audit, no-bid contract to help rebuild Puerto Rico's electric grid.
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The move was a reaction to a year of mainstream misses and only two hits: In 22017, Pornhub finagled a centerpiece montage (with clips handpicked by VP Corey Price) in the heart of the porn-focused Joseph Gordon-Levitt rom-com Don Jon.
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On Wednesday morning, a hacker who finagled their way into Jones's iCloud account released her photos, including some nude shots, as well as personal information: photos of her passport and driver's license, her phone number, and her Twitter password — on Jones's official website, no less.
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If you weren't lucky enough to go to Bayside High (we're looking at you, Tiffani Thiessen), you never got to see A.C. Slater's perfect curly mullet or deep-as-the-ocean dimples in action as he and Zack Morris finagled one crazy scheme after another.
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But he soon finagled a move to the company's new research lab in Northern California, where a group of visionaries was developing what would become the most important digital technologies of the next three decades, including the personal computer as it is known today.
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But their points were discounted when the organizers found that the same issue had been reported to Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative in recent weeks by a researcher who had somehow finagled access to the software—even though the reported bug has yet to be patched.
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Assistant Growth Editor Lily Kartiganer finagled a round trip to Dublin for under $300 by taking advantage of Norwegian Air's super low prices, which she said costs less than a flight back to her home in Florida during the holidays (it probably helped that it was in the travel off-season, too).
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That contrast was perfect, and got better still when Klobuchar chimed in, because what the two women said brilliantly cast them not as trailblazers who had something extra to prove, not as outsiders who had finagled a way in, not as underdogs urging voters to take some extraordinary leap of faith, not as high-minded gambles.
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With these two entities and the help of co-conspirators, Singer finagled admissions that relied on two methods: "Between roughly 225 and 226, dozens of wealthy parents paid Singer about $22015 million in total to guarantee their children admission to elite schools," United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Andrew E. Lelling said during a press conference Tuesday.
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With these two entities and the help of co-conspirators, Singer finagled admissions that relied on two methods: "Between roughly 2011 and 2018, dozens of wealthy parents paid Singer about $25 million in total to guarantee their children admission to elite schools," United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Andrew E. Lelling said during a press conference Tuesday.
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NBC's Ben Collins finagled his way into a far-right Discord chat and found that trolls were complaining about Twitter deleting their accounts urging people to vote on the wrong day — but also found that they were growing more sophisticated in creating fake accounts in which they masquerade as middle-aged women by adding Snapchat filters to other people's photos that they find online.
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In 1984, he finagled himself a meeting with the N.F.L. commissioner at the time, Pete Rozelle, at the Pierre Hotel in New York, in which he told Rozelle he would do whatever it took to get himself into the league, according to an account of the meeting in "Football for a Buck," the sportswriter Jeff Pearlman's coming book on the U.S.F.L. Rozelle was not impressed.
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And Brosnahan felt that she could truly inhabit Miriam (Midge) Maisel, a young Jewish housewife in 1958 who has finagled the full megillah straight out of Bryn Mawr — the gleaming Upper West Side apartment, the doting husband who pitches ad copy by day and wears transgressive turtlenecks by night, a toddler and a bouncing baby and a waist that cinches to a Coke-bottle shape in a Perma-lift girdle.
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An English schoolteacher's son, he had played tight end and defensive end on his high school football team the year they won state and had kissed the ring of Pope John Paul II. He had in fact twice finagled front-row seats to see the pope, just as he had talked his way into a sales job at Coca-Cola while polishing the company president's golf clubs during his summer employment as a caddy.
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This time he finagled a berth on a diplomatic mission to Paraguay. When he sailed home in 1859, he brought with him a secret agreement with the president of Paraguay to lobby on that country's behalf and headed to Washington, DC, to begin a new career.
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It turns out that a favorite topic of real graduates from his fake alma mater, Harvard Law, is Harvard itself. As if it were fate, he is again implored to fill a job opening and has the hiring conditions finagled for him. One requirement is that he pass the state bar exam. He manages that honestly on the third try thanks to his wrong answers being highlighted and sent to him.
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Occult historian Lewis Spence comments in his entry on Cagliostro that the swindler put his finagled wealth to good use by starting and funding a chain of maternity hospitals and orphanages around the continent. He carried an alchemistic manuscript The Most Holy Trinosophia amongst others with him on his ill-fated journey to Rome and it is alleged that he wrote it. Occultist Aleister Crowley believed Cagliostro was one of his previous incarnations.
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Jon Becker, successfully finagled the bill through the House Education Committee before it was pushed on to the Senate. However, once the bill reached the Senate, it was assigned to the "kill committee," State, Veterans and Military Affairs, where the measure died on a 3-2 party-line vote. Senator Grantham was also recently honored as a "Friend of the Farm Bureau" by the Colorado Farm Bureau for his work regarding Colorado Agriculture during the 2012 legislative session.
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In 1934, Wiggins' reputation as a consummate preparer of racing automobiles and race mechanic resulted in him being enlisted into Bill Cummings's Boyle Products race team for the 1934 Indianapolis 500. Wiggins was finagled past race officials by claiming he was the team's janitor. Cummings narrowly won the race from later three time Indy 500 champion Mauri Rose, having led 57 of the 200 racing laps. Wiggins' career was ended on the second lap of the 1936 Gold and Glory race.
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"His life would make a good movie," his daughter Tilly said. In the 1920s and '30s Abbe photographed politicians, stage and film stars—Hitler and Mussolini, Charlie Chaplin and Josephine Baker—and scored the biggest coup of his career when he finagled his way into the Kremlin and, according to Miss Tilly, "tricked" Stalin into posing for him. The result: a rare snapshot of the Soviet dictator smiling. His portrait of Joseph Stalin was famously used to stop rumors that the Soviet leader was dead.
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As the series moved toward a close, Vic finagled a Federal deal for full immunity from prosecution for every crime he admitted to. Using Shane's memoirs as a guide, he spoke in detail about everything the Strike Team had done, including the murder of Terry. Being the last team-member left other than Vic, Ronnie was arrested for "covering up Detective Terry Crowley's murder". As a confessed cop-killer, Vic was regarded as scum by his former colleagues at the Barn and was trapped in a cubicle by his new employers at I.C.E.
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Instead, outraged by denial of the chance to directly battle communism, he went absent without leave southward to Command and Control Central, and finagled his way onto MACV-SOG's Recon Team Illinois. In May 1969, in a memorable operation, Bacon infiltrated into Cambodia as a member of this team. It was tasked with gathering bomb damage assessment in the wake of the third Operation Menu B-52 raid. Team Illinois was inserted only 20 minutes after the bombing, with the intention of capturing a stunned enemy soldier for military intelligence interrogation.
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A Cape Cod melodrama about the U.S. Life-Saving Service based on a novel by Joseph C. Lincoln. When the captain of the Setauket Life Saving Station retires, the second in command, Calvin Homer (Warner Baxter), expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Benoni Bartlett (Wallace Beery), a religious fanatic who has been named a hero as the only survivor of dangerous rescue that claimed the lives of his fellow crewmen at a neighboring station. Bartlett's daughter Norma (Lois Wilson)) convinces Homer to stay in spite of her father's antagonistic ways. Soon a romance springs up between the two of them, even though Myra Fuller (Phyllis Haver) had already finagled a proposal out of Homer.
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