He was recommended by Federalist Society power broker Leonard Leo.
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In Kentucky, a math teacher defeated a Republican power broker.
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Like any power broker, Sharpton is well aware of his status.
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What does the conservative power-broker around town drink to unwind?
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There has always been a Sunni power broker in the region.
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After national elections in 2010, he emerged as a power broker.
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The other saw no need, having become a political power-broker.
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Mr. Milken is the power broker at the center of the action.
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For more on that, here's music manager and power broker Irving Azoff.
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As Washington archbishop, McCarrick was a major power broker in Vatican-U.
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The power broker Robert Moses is the Darth Vader of Citizen Jane.
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The power broker drives around the city hoarding power and financial resources.
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He's a kind of behind-the-scenes power broker, always gathering information.
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China has already emerged as a global power broker on climate change.
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Terry McAuliffe, a long-time national party power-broker, said last week.
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Serving as a power-broker in Syria has helped Russia to cultivate relationships.
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Corbally even set up a key meeting with Washington power broker Bob Strauss.
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After the success of "The Power Broker", Mr Caro decided to think bigger.
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Russia, a close ally of Damascus, is a leading power broker in Syria.
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As I said, it's not easy to accuse a power-broker of abuse.
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At the same time, he restored Russia's position as a global power broker.
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Mr. Buttigieg had tried before to become a power broker in national politics.
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Everyone was reading "The Power Broker"—or, at least, reading summaries of it.
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Russia is intent on asserting itself as the primary power broker in Syria.
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"The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert Caro
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Arum promotes Fury, and Wilder is managed by the boxing power broker Al Haymon.
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Dozens of women have accused the former Hollywood power broker, 67, of sexual misconduct.
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Sandberg has long been known as a power broker and decision maker at Facebook.
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If you think about connector, or another way to say that is power broker. Yeah.
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"The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert A. Caro
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The late João Havelange, another sports power broker, was honored at the Games last week.
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But he became a power-broker, serving for a while as the Speaker of congress.
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This week alone, the Russian president:Replaced the US as the chief power broker in Syria.
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Take, for instance, Robert Moses of "The Power Broker," the devastating biography by Robert Caro.
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As Mr. Powell's star rises, a very different power broker is taking a step back.
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One of McKay's models was "The Power Broker," Robert Caro's landmark biography of Robert Moses.
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But along the way, right-wing media became the gatekeeper, and then the power broker.
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The paper gleefully took on the city's power brokers, starting with the Power Broker himself.
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Putin may have emerged as a Middle East power broker, but his gains elsewhere are tenuous.
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I wrote about Thiel's arc from technology investor to Straussian power broker for that same reason.
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"Their suspicion has been heightened," said Bob Vander Plaats, an Iowa evangelical leader and power broker.
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These women should know that it's not easy to publicly accuse a power-broker of abuse.
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Now, it's Ms. Pressley playing power broker, as Ms. Warren seeks to usurp the establishment herself.
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A power-broker, Batista effectively ruled behind the scenes until he was elected president in 1940.
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Colbert is said to be keenly aware of his power broker status with the Democratic electorate.
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Russia will have succeeded in reasserting itself as a Mideast military victor and diplomatic power broker.
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At 33, bin Salman is set to become King and a regional power broker for decades.
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And, amid a declining U.S. role, Russia has emerged as an uncontested power broker in the country.
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A later fundraiser was due to be attended by Hollywood power broker and film executive Jeffrey Katzenberg.
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It has for years presented itself as a mediator and power broker for the region's many disputes.
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" Mary Hedge, the archivist for the authority, wore a button that read "I Finished The Power Broker.
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Qatar has for years presented itself as a mediator and power broker for the region's many disputes.
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By the 1980s, the party was controlled as a fief by City Hall power broker Raymond Harding.
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At the same time, Mr. Solomon strayed beyond the traditional mold of a Wall Street power broker.
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Though an unelected internet consultant, Davide Casaleggio is now perhaps the ultimate power broker behind the party.
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Russia is now eager to cement its role as the power broker in Syria (The Associated Press).
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My big challenge, it seems, will be to find ways to exercise my natural power-broker instincts.
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Mr. Guo accused Ms. Hu of being corrupt and working for a "behind the scenes" power broker.
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"The Power Broker," his Pulitzer Prize-winning life of Robert Moses, weighed in at nearly 1,300 pages.
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Explore the full list of winners and honorable mentions from The Power Broker game challenge on Medium.
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An outcast yesterday, Putin may now see himself as a major power broker in the emerging global Trumpworld.
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The Russian president may have emerged as a Middle East power broker, but his gains elsewhere are tenuous.
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Having thus saved Mr Assad and enabled his rehabilitation, Russia is supplanting America as the region's power-broker.
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Babis's ouster or resignation would make President Milos Zeman the key power broker, as he appoints prime ministers.
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Damascus' ally Hezbollah remains Lebanon's main power broker and has fought alongside government forces in Syria's civil war.
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A potentially cozy relationship with disgraced Hollywood power broker Harvey Weinstein may also have contributed to his ouster.
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Originally a corporate power broker for Delos, Charlotte Hale was killed in the season two finale ... by herself.
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If Netanyahu manages to cobble together a ruling coalition, Ben-Ari could become a power broker within it.
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Ms. Price has found it far more comfortable currying favor with a more nonconforming power broker: Willie Nelson.
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Major power broker Steve Benjamin, the African-American mayor of Columbia, has reaffirmed his backing of Mike Bloomberg.
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A cabinet reconstruction would make Zeman the key power broker, as he appoints the prime minister and ministers.
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While Mr. Trump gives the impression that he's a big power broker in New York, our reporting shows otherwise.
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When the United States has hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground, that Sunni power broker becomes irrelevant.
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And he did turn to a longtime Washington lobbyist and power broker, Paul Manafort, to help run his campaign.
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David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, is thought to be the conference's key power broker outside Texas.
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One evening, it hosted the local precinct captain and a local power broker, who met in the back room.
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Amazon Studios chief and Hollywood power broker Roy Price has resigned after a series of allegations of sexual harassment.
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It was when someone came back a month later and said, 'I read "The Power Broker" because of you.
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Doing this made The Power Broker "so much easier to carry around," Love said, especially on her daily commute.
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Chaka FattahChaka FattahPhiladelphia Dem power broker indicted The year the party machines broke Jury convicts the son of Rep.
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Eric Schmidt, a power broker in Democratic politics during the Obama years, has also raised money for Joe Biden.
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He describes his role as a mirror image of that of his late predecessor David Carr, a power broker who focused on the explosion of new online outlets; Smith, who will presumably also be a power broker, will be focusing on how the media, epitomized by the New York Times itself, is consolidating.
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She waved goodbye as we made our way down the dark lane — every inch the cheerful, ruthless village power broker.
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Moses, who was later immortalized as "The Power Broker," wanted to replace New York City's notorious squalor with new developments.
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Wearing pink tennis shoes and a simple JanSport backpack, Mr. Gold hardly looked like a slick Wall Street power broker.
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Cheney rose from reckless youth to White House power broker, first among equals (alongside Donald Rumsfeld) in Gerald Ford's administration.
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And it has made Russia, a country flouting international norms, the main non-Middle Eastern power broker in the region.
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Were the Syrian government the only power broker in its own country, the challenge would be complicated but one-dimensional.
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ALBANY — Brian M. Kolb is not a power broker or a kingmaker, a rabble-rouser or a political bomb thrower.
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But she suggested that the longtime Democratic power-broker was tainted by his political connections and was not an unbiased observer.
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For Russia, the meeting was seen as a way to show the world that Russia can be a global power broker.
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Mr McCluskey now remains a trade union baron and Labour Party power-broker by garnering just 6% of the possible vote.
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The military, which has traditionally played a behind-the-scenes power broker role, has stayed in its barracks throughout the crisis.
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Certainly, he's no power broker, but rather is the type of behind-the-scenes player who's vitally important to the industry.
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But the more intriguing casting is Nathan Lane as Roy Cohn, the conservative power broker (and early mentor of Donald Trump).
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Mr. Banharn, a regional power broker and a master of money politics, enriched his home province, Suphanburi, as a political patron.
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The globe-trotting power broker could be a key source of information for the Mueller probe for a number of reasons.
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In 2002, his firm, Quinn Gillespie, boasted on its website that Ed Gillespie has emerged as a one-stop power broker.
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Lewandowski's journey from obscure New Hampshire political operative to celebrity power broker was emblematic of how Trump's election scrambled Washington's hierarchies.
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When he invited an old friend out to dinner recently, he was gently rebuffed — the power broker was suddenly a pariah.
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Qasem Soleimani, Iran's influential military commander and a power broker of terror in the Middle East, the Iranians vowed harsh revenge.
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He was accompanied by Representative Steve King, an immigration hardliner, and Bob Vander Plaats, a power broker among Iowa's religious conservatives.
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Paul Hodes who served as a co-chairman on President Obama's 2008 campaign and is still a power broker in the state.
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Powell Jobs and her team will take control from David Bradley, a longtime DC power broker who bought the magazine in 1999.
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Crowley was a 20-year incumbent and a major power broker in New York politics who simultaneously ran the Queens Democratic Party.
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Robert Caro's epic biography of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker", reveals what it took to push through infrastructure projects in New York.
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As governor of Delta, he amassed a huge fortune and became a power-broker in the PDP party then ruling the country.
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Quill: The District has a great many hotel bars, but few provide the DC power broker–experience quite as well as Quill.
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Mr. Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, had also made a fortune in real estate and was a Democratic power broker in New Jersey.
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A Republican victory would thus be not only a loss for the Democrats but a personal embarrassment for a venerable power broker.
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Nor is he the wily South Jersey legislator and moderate union official with the backing of the state's most feared power broker.
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Russia is not likely to cede its new gains in the Middle East, where it has established itself as a power broker.
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In fact, Mr. Murphy is planning to attend a governors association fund-raiser with George Norcross, a South Jersey political power broker.
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In particular, Russia has emerged as the main power broker in negotiations between the Kurds, Mr. al-Assad and the Turkish government.
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It was a power-broker dining room from 1955 to 2000, and the Connaught hotel plans to reopen it early next year.
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He fought the Shabab militia in Somalia, leveraging his country's commercial ports to become a power broker in the Horn of Africa.
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Saúl, 41, said he was given a day to leave Honduras, possibly because his evangelical preaching had angered a local power broker.
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Saúl, 41, said he was given a day to leave Honduras, possibly because his evangelical preaching had angered a local power broker.
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Mr. Hironaka also represented a major political power broker who was acquitted of charges related to a political financing scandal in 2012.
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THE POWER BROKER This is a fairly big umbrella, and underneath it are people who have lots to do in their work lives.
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But the discussion of Firtash in Houston raises questions about whether Parnas and Fruman were connected to the deep-pocketed Ukrainian power broker.
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Such an arrangement would allow him to run the country as he now runs his business—as a behind-the-scenes power-broker.
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Osama Heikel, a former information minister, has a seat, as does the son of Kamal al-Shazli, a former ruling party power broker.
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Both men are allied to Lebanon's strongest power-broker, Hassan Nasrallah, who leads Hizbullah, a Shia militia-cum-political-party backed by Iran.
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The military, which is expected to keep playing its influential behind-the-scenes role as a power broker, has stayed in the barracks.
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The party positioned itself as the legislative power broker, winning pork barrel perks and control of ministries in return for support in Congress.
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Another separate reason that New Hampshire might be a power broker this year is that a close down-ballot race — Kelly Ayotte vs.
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Take his final battle against the New York power broker Jack Foley, who's the reason he has to out himself as a masochist.
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The former official, John Dalli, 269, is a longtime power broker in Malta, the tiniest of the 0003 countries of the European Union.
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Libya analysts said the area where the strikes took place is controlled by another major power broker in Libya's fractious political landscape, Gen.
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After decades as a power broker, he became president of , but was fired shortly after amid tension with former Disney CEO Michael Eisner.
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I am finally making my way all the way through "The Power Broker," after reading it in fragments several times in the past.
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He's flexing his muscles as a power broker on a journey that takes him knocking on the door of every powerful person for favors.
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The younger Kushner has emerged as one of Trump's most trusted advisers and a power broker inside what has been a tumultuous transition process.
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It certainly seems like Johnson has been a Hollywood power broker for a good long while, but in many ways, he's just arrived here.
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He did it in his award-winning first book, "The Power Broker" about New York City Parks Commissioner and master road builder Robert Moses.
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For decades, the Saudis poured money into the country only to see Hizbullah become the main political power broker and a potent fighting force.
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Once a feared power broker, Cersei hasn't had much go her way since her rancid son King Joffrey was killed early in Season 4.
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But their steadfast relationship is in no doubt and his message to Moscow, and others, is clear: France is the power broker in Europe.
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Reagan brought political figures into the White House, among them the Democratic power broker Robert S. Strauss, to argue her case to the president.
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READ: Meet the real power broker behind Trump's shutdown This isn't the first time Trump has threatened to seal off the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Partly, that's because every command has a keyboard shortcut, so a busy power broker never has to waste precious seconds reaching for the mouse.
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And the illness of a military power broker in Libya threatens more political turbulence and a reversal in the yearlong increase in Libyan exports.
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But along the Bronx River — presumably having learned the lessons "The Power Broker" can teach — even Mr. Cuomo is thinking just a bit smaller.
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The owner Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys, a power broker in the league who embraced and pushed the move, had an extra incentive.
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After decades as a power broker, he became president of Disney, but was fired shortly after amid tension with former Disney CEO Michael Eisner.
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Dodds had become a power broker during the Brexit talks when the DUP propped up the minority Conservative Party government after the last election.
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The meeting signaled that Russia does not see its role in the Balkans only as Serbia's protector, but also as a potential power broker.
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Sunday's German election has raised questions on whether the weakening of Chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe's power broker, may affect the EU's calculations on Brexit.
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Iran became the main foreign power broker in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 2011, with its local allies controlling the security services.
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It is also a Labour Party power-broker, providing the party with funds, controlling votes on the National Executive Committee and irrigating its grass roots.
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Akhmetshin is a well-established Washington power broker who has worked to advance the agendas of Kremlin apparatchiks and influential clients from former Soviet states.
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Without those spines showing, no one will ever know that you've read The Power Broker or Infinite Jest or the latest insufferable Maggie Nelson novella.
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Museveni has won praise in the West for his support against militant Islam and his role as power broker in the volatile Great Lakes Region.
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It's important not just to further American standards, but also to establish the country as a power broker in the Asia-Pacific region, many argued.
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It also established Russia as a power broker in the Middle East, regaining a role it had relinquished after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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What's next: Putin will aim to restore Russia's status as a power-broker in the region, to the detriment of the U.S. and its allies.
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Preacher Boyd, makes a welcome return visit, but villains like the local power broker Solomon Heath also rear their heads, as do their sociopathic offspring.
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Mr. Trump is a New York power broker, but he has tended to shun the kinds of places that power brokers are known to frequent.
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Museveni has won praise in the West for his support against militant Islam and his role as power-broker in the volatile Great Lakes Region.
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It's not for me to advocate any heir to Balanchine or Mr. Martins; I strongly dislike the notion of critic as kingmaker or power broker.
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The New York criminal trial of Harvey Weinstein is based on the relationships between the former Hollywood power broker and producer and two younger women.
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Reign, then a campaign finance lawyer and pop-culture-obsessed contributor to a loose community of black Twitter users, was hardly a Hollywood power broker.
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Personality: Thiel is a take-no prisoners, billionaire power-broker in Silicon Valley who, with Trump, clearly sees an opportunity to significantly enhance his impact.
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Emotional Power Broker of the Modern Family (2011) Pets alter not only a family's routines but also its hierarchy, social rhythm and web of relationships.
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Here is one more thing I beat you at, Xi Jinping is the power broker in this area, nothing happens without him, especially in North Korea.
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Ten years later, Khan had emerged as a major power broker inside the Labour Party and perhaps the most prominent Muslim politician in all of Britain.
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By the time Chung began working with Van Vuuren, he was within shooting distance of a prestigious and lucrative career as a Silicon Valley power broker.
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Iran, by leveraging its ties with Iraq's Shi'ites, has emerged as the main power broker in Iraq after the United States withdrew its troops in 2011.
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The Mexican President, who had nothing to lose, suddenly found himself as the unexpected power broker/mediator to the world's most unruly potential head of state.
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And the conclusion is, it is Sheldon Adelson, billionaire casino magnate, Republican power broker, who has basically bought the paper in large part to suppress it.
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The PAC is reportedly tied to George E. Norcross III, a South Jersey hospital and insurance executive who is a Democratic power broker in the state.
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The military, which has traditionally played a behind-the-scenes power broker role, has distanced itself from Bouteflika and stayed in its barracks throughout the crisis.
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His eastern economic gathering in Vladivostock, with its sudden focus on the regional players in the North Korea crisis, automatically makes Putin a key power broker.
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In Macron, Zuckerberg was meeting a power broker who has tremendous sway over how future EU regulators will approach the issue of online data and competition.
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Her current show, Salt Priestess at Pioneer Works, connects these subjects, resurrecting the role of woman as the primary power broker engineering rites of liminal thresholds.
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Iran, by leveraging its ties with Iraq's majority Shi'ites, emerged as the main power broker in Iraq after the United States withdrew its troops in 2011.
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The deal eventually fell apart due to accusations of corruption, but the exchange shows that Nader was a power broker with real influence among Russian elites.
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This producer is just one power broker, but he represents a mind-set that is responsible for mainstream industry that feels both creatively and ethically bankrupt.
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" For years Mr. O'Brien has tried to book the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Power Broker" and the multivolume epic "The Years of Lyndon Johnson.
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As chairman of Asean, Mr. Duterte wants to be a regional power broker who can help negotiate with North Korea, said Mr. Heydarian, the political scientist.
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The result is that the Saudis — through private or covert channels — have tacitly supported the Taliban in ways that make the kingdom an indispensable power broker.
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"We have a new success, Trump's visit," Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of the governing party and Poland's true power broker, said in a speech last week.
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Mr. Kaczynski, once a member of Solidarity, which ultimately helped to bring the Soviet Union to its knees, is now the real power broker in Poland.
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The trial begins more than two years after a bombshell magazine story confirmed the sort of allegations that long had swirled around the Hollywood power broker.
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In 1959, Mr. Caro wrote in "The Power Broker," the East Tremont Neighborhood Association was trying to develop a middle-income housing complex in the Bronx.
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It's the tale of a Hollywood power broker intent on turning an evangelical businessman's best-selling guide to a happy marriage into a blockbuster romantic comedy.
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Haftar's LNA is, at present, the main oil and gas power broker in the country, controlling the so-called "oil crescent" in the Gulf of Sirte.
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Kuwait, home to influential sports power broker Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, is now banking on former soccer stars to get back into the sporting fold.
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In recent months, Russia has held direct talks with Taliban officials and some Afghan politicians opposed to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, promoting its role of power broker.
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And he's been trying to play the neutral power-broker by offering to "mediate" an end to the war in Syria, despite his obvious bias toward Assad.
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"The Power Broker", a 700,000-word epic, tells the story of a man who shaped America's biggest city over four decades without ever being elected to office.
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Trump has said he plans to send New York Jets owner Woody Johnson to the United Kingdom; Tennessee power-broker Bill Hagerty to Japan; and Iowa Gov.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Power Broker" and "The Years of Lyndon Johnson," Robert A. Caro, is known for his meticulously researched, thoroughly reported biographies.
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That role alone has made him a power broker in an election cycle in which Mr. Trump has soared in part because of his anti-immigration statements.
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Trump administration officials view Cabello as an important power broker, and some say the Venezuelan opposition's April 30 uprising would have succeeded if Cabello had been involved.
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"It is consolidating its role as a major power broker, both regionally and locally," said Maha Yahya, the director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.
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The New Yorker article, published online Friday, was written by Ronan Farrow, whose investigative reporting in October contributed to the downfall of Hollywood power broker Harvey Weinstein.
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A longtime political player in the region, as well as Peru's former minister of justice, Salhuana was regarded as the real power broker in Madre de Dios.
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Ms. Pirro's ex-husband, the businessman and lobbyist Al Pirro, served as Mr. Trump's Westchester County power broker in the 1990s, navigating deals for the Manhattan developer.
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Ultimately, though, the fate of the two leaders may be decided by Venezuela's military, which plays an outsize role in the country's politics as a power broker.
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Grace, 52, who has become a power broker in ZANU-PF since her elevation to the top echelons of the party in 2014, said Mugabe's word was "final".
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In his heyday, Ibori was a power broker at the heart of the People's Democratic Party, which was then ruling Africa's most populous country and top oil producer.
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Erdogan, who has long tried to play the role of a regional power broker, said Ankara would do everything in its power to help end the regional crisis.
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Trump's win shocked the world, but if we all read alt-right power broker Jeff Giesea's paper about memetic warfare in 2015, we might have seen it coming.
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Ten days before the Republican primary, the Cruz campaign rolled out a series of ads that aimed to expose Trump as a grasping developer and crooked power broker.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin went on a victory lap this week, replacing the US as chief power broker in Syria, and gaining a closer ally in Europe's backyard.
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Mr. Hariri had to publicly support Prince Mohammed because the kingdom remains a power broker in Lebanon and has fashioned itself the protector of the country's Sunni community.
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Others included the power broker who once ran the royal court under King Abdullah, and the owner of one of the biggest private media companies in the region.
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In late October, Julie McCarty, the president of the NE Tarrant County Tea Party and a major power broker in North Texas, expressed confidence over the coming election.
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South Korean intelligence officials say Mr. Kim has executed scores of senior officials, including his own uncle, a wily power broker who had been seen as his mentor.
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Mr. Temer, a veteran lawmaker who became a major power broker in Brasília, the capital, has been a target of at least 10 corruption investigations in recent years.
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Pope Francis has decided that the ruling, which followed an appeal by McCarrick, a power-broker as Archbishop of Washington, D.C. from 2001 to 2006, was now final.
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That's in partnership with power-broker China Renaissance, which backed Uber rival Didi among major Chinese tech firms, and it could value the firm at $1 billion, SCMP reported.
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One well-known Washington power broker says he can't give the West Wing the name of a single top talent who'd be willing to go in, now or later.
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But inside Washington, the real power broker behind the shutdown, whipping enough House opposition to kill any compromise, is the chair of the Freedom Caucus, North Carolina Republican Rep.
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And it cast immediate doubts on whether Trump — who has sold himself as the consummate dealmaker — can transition from business guru and campaign showman to effective Washington power broker.
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Rossi, who joined Scandal in season 4 as Republican power broker Liz North, asked to be written out of the show in 2017 to focus on a business venture.
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Protests have been mostly peaceful and the military, which is expected to keep playing its influential behind-the-scenes role as a power broker, has stayed in its barracks.
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" One longtime Republican power broker summed up the role the hotel is playing in Trump's Washington: "It is a magnet for unsophisticated foreign governments and companies to offer tribute.
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The year after Epstein was released from jail, New York power broker Peggy Siegal reportedly organized a dinner party at the financier's Manhattan townhouse in honor of Prince Andrew.
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General Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko, 69, a power broker in the former French colony's 1990s civil war, announced his candidacy in the capital Brazzaville at a packed conference center.
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Unlike the fixed-income trading group, the stock-trading unit has one primary power broker: Fabrizio Gallo, who is one of the longest-tenured division heads in Montag's world.
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Macron "has also championed efforts to combat climate change around the world, including in China, and is increasingly acting as a power broker in the Middle East," Mansfield added.
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Unlike the fixed-income trading group, the stock-trading unit has one primary power broker: Fabrizio Gallo, who is one of the longest-tenured division heads in Montag's world.
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According to the Chicago Tribune newspaper, Bills told the judge before sentencing that he committed "immoral" acts and had a "broken moral compass," but denied being a power broker.
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During the editing of "The Power Broker," Mr. Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1974 biography of Robert Moses, he and Mr. Gottlieb had to cut 350,000 words from the manuscript.
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The organization's most recent publicly available financial disclosures show that it spent $580,000 on congressional lobbying in 2014, including $330,000 to D.C. power broker Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP.
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Britain's competition regulator said in January his planned takeover should be blocked unless a way was found to prevent the Australian-born power-broker from influencing Sky's news operation.
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"She certainly hasn't prioritized trying to become a power broker within New York State," said Peter Kauffmann, a Democratic strategist in New York and former press secretary for Mrs.
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"Unfortunately we have groups that want to be more Iranian than Iran itself," said Salah al-Obaidi, the spokesman for the populist cleric and power-broker Moktada al-Sadr.
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Over the next few years, General Raziq not only established himself as one of Afghanistan's most important security leaders, but also grew as a major politician and power broker.
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A nod to the fact that she has built an entire business post-Harvey, all on her own, and doesn't have to rely on any power broker any more.
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They were a parade of Harvard Law School's best new graduates, including such figures as future attorney general Francis Biddle, Alger Hiss, and New Deal power broker Thomas Corcoran.
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Nader, a citizen of Lebanon and a wealthy Middle East power broker, had acted as a middle-man between U.S. and Russia-connected figures after President Donald Trump's election.
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A new wrinkle in the battle for an oil-rich country, and a signal from President Erdogan that Turkey aims to be a power broker in a volatile region.
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Nevertheless, the hassle presented by slower speed limits, and the tickets issued to a pretty small fraction of those exceeding them, have moved a Brooklyn power broker to act.
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And she has an unexpected nickname for Robert Moses, who ravaged neighborhoods as the "master builder," or master "Power Broker," in the words of Robert A. Caro, his biographer.
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He quickly gained a reputation for being a behind-the-scenes power broker, and the image was reinforced when he publicly supported Rudd's bid to remove Gillard three years later.
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Trump is also dead set against the Iran nuclear deal and Russia's ties to Tehran make it look like a natural power broker in renegotiating that deal and imposing sanctions.
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It would also take time to work out a consensus among secular, Islamist and left-wing parties and the UGTT, which has played power broker in politics in the past.
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Even without that title, Venit is a true Hollywood power broker who represents high-profile celebrities like Adam Sandler, Sylvester Stallone, Emma Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Liam Hemsworth and Steve Martin.
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The lifetime achievement award will be presented to Robert A. Caro, author of "The Power Broker," a biography of Robert Moses, and an ongoing multivolume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson.
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But Weinstein, who was infamously easy to enrage during his career as a Hollywood power broker, also refused to go down in the court of public opinion without a fight.
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Albany has a checkered record when it comes to sexual harassment, on both sides of the aisle, perhaps most notably of the disgraced Democratic power broker, Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez.
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Kuwait's Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, a major power broker in Asian sports, remains the head of the body that delivers about $130 million a year in annual grants.
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In the process, Lukanga, a financial adviser with a growing reputation in Hollywood as a behind-the-scenes power broker and sage, found himself in an unfamiliar role: whistle-blower.
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Giovanni De Michelis, a flamboyant Italian Socialist and power broker in Rome who was caught up in Italy's sweeping corruption scandal of the 1990s, died on May 11 in Venice.
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Russia has served as a power broker in Syria's conflict, intervening on behalf of the Syrian government against rebel fighters while trying to ease Israel's security fears in the country.
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Karzai used to pay the family of a power broker named Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani more than a hundred thousand dollars a month in "expense money" to keep its support.
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The Taliban, on the other hand, views the Afghan government as illegitimate and says it will only negotiate directly with the U.S., which it views as the real power broker.
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But they differ in other areas, and an attempt by U.S. President Donald Trump's former strategist, Steve Bannon, to act as a power broker among Europe's populist groups has fizzled.
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Temer, 78, previously led the MDB, a regionally fragmented party with no consistent ideology that for two decades held the most seats in Congress, making it a major power broker.
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Somehow it all connects to Moses Randolph (Alec Baldwin), the unelected power broker and master builder who runs the city with a ruthless hand and absolute confidence in his own vision.
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Status: No public court activity yet, but two key figures are known to be cooperating: Middle East would-be power broker George Nader and Blackwater mercenary group founder Erik Prince. 213.
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Middle Eastern InfluenceWhile Mueller touches on the role of would-be Middle Eastern power broker George Nader in his report, his team's battle with an unnamed foreign entity continues in court.
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It is not only a symbol of a once-divided city becoming a national capital and regional power broker, but also a multicultural milieu home to a dizzying array of nationalities.
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Historian and journalist Robert A. Caro is most well-known for his seminal work "The Power Broker," and more recently for his series of books on former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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And like Pregent, she points out that in the fluid give-and- take of Iraqi politics, it's very possible that al-Sadr might not end up being Iraq's new power broker.
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As Dominican voters in Upper Manhattan made their numbers felt, Mr. Espaillat's status as a local power broker seemed on the rise: His two candidates even held their victory party together.
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But this all leaves Turkey with a lot less leverage than it could have in negotiations with Russia, which has proven, once again, that it is the power broker in Syria.
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It has absolutely nothing to do with food, but Carina Hsieh paid $150 on Cameo to have Gilbert Gottfried read from "The Power Broker," and it made for a great tweet.
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It included running Northwest Airlines, serving as a power broker for the Republican Party and becoming a major benefactor to his alma mater, the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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"The Power Broker," Robert A. Caro's biography of Mr. Moses, is the book that still must be read — 43 years after it was published — to understand how New York really works.
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Mr. Cobb said he first came across a mention of Mr. Mulvany while researching "The King of Greenpoint," Mr. Cobb's recent biography of the charismatic political power broker Peter J. McGuinness.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In March, The Power Broker: A Game Design Competition challenged developers to interpret themes of Robert Caro's seminal tome on Robert Moses as interactive experiences.
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Bobby rules crippled hedge fund kingdom; Chuck, toppled from his position and expelled from his network, is now working as a self-branded "power broker" and desperately trying to salvage his reputation.
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Nor did Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and a right-leaning power broker who is well-known within the American-Jewish establishment.
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First lady Cilia Flores, a lawyer and former attorney general who also ran Venezuela's legislature, frequently appears at public events with Maduro and is seen an important behind-the-scenes power broker.
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The explosive report comes just days after a bombshell New York Times report that the Hollywood power broker had paid out settlements to at least eight women over allegations of sexual misconduct.
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A Camden Democratic power broker, George Norcross, was secretly recorded discussing patronage jobs and issuing threats over a decade ago, and is still somehow portrayed in the press as a normal businessman.
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American relations with Saudi Arabia, a key power broker in the Middle East and crucial oil producer vital to the global economy have often fallen on the hypocritical side of this line.
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Mr. Qi became a power broker in his mid-30s, helping to draft programmatic documents and channeling the fury of the Red Guards, groups of fervently radical students, against veteran Communist officials.
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"He needs to preserve the integrity of the brand and the dignity of his principles," said Al Cardenas, a prominent GOP power broker who served as chairman of the American Conservative Union.
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Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood power broker whose sexual abuses became a catalyst for a worldwide cultural reckoning about sexual misconduct, was sentenced Wednesday morning to 23 years in New York state prison.
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Caro makes the same point more succinctly when writing about "The Power Broker," recalling how he was swept away by the scandalous material he was discovering and an accompanying sense of duty.
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For decades, Mr. Weinstein had cultivated an image as a liberal power broker, raising money for Hillary Clinton, briefly employing Malia Obama as an intern and calling himself an advocate for women.
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If I were a shadowy Dem power broker, I would want to boost Amy Klobuchar, whom everyone seems to like and whose showing in a purplish Upper Midwest state was extremely impressive.
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The suit also raises allegations about Sarah Stennett, First Access's chief executive and a music industry power broker who has worked with the pop singers Ellie Goulding, Rita Ora and Zayn Malik.
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The decrepit-looking Mr. Weinstein, body hunched as he slowly rolls forward, contrasts sharply with his former image as a domineering Hollywood power broker now accused of rape and predatory sexual assault.
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Long a power broker in Illinois and Wisconsin political circles, Mr. Uihlein has taken a more aggressive national approach this year, spending $20 million to back conservatives in races across the country.
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Clinton dropped out of the race, Ms. Miller was hired by John Podesta, the Democratic power broker who was leading the Center for American Progress, one of Washington's most influential progressive groups.
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Few times in Venezuela's recent history has so much appeared to be hanging on a protest movement — and its ability to get the military, Venezuela's chief power broker, to side with it.
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Former San Francisco mayor and still active power broker Willie Brown tried to promote a Georgist land tax in the early 1970s before conservative homeowners voted in Proposition 13's property tax caps.
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The 89-year-old, once a power-broker as Archbishop of Washington, D.C. from 2001 to 2006, is the highest profile Church figure to have been dismissed from the priesthood in modern times.
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Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who rose to be a power broker in the American Church as archbishop of Washington, D.C., from 2001 to 2006, was among the clergy members on the Newark list.
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In 1988, President Ronald Reagan, a Republican, appointed Judge Wood, a Democrat, to the federal bench in New York with the support of another Republican power broker, former State Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato.
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Short and podgy in the flesh, Sagat was a power broker in the ring who smashed the tight guards of many challengers with devastating leg kicks, mean upper cuts and short, sharp elbows.
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"The Power Broker," by Robert Caro (20063) It might take a considerable portion of your 20s to read this book, which clocks in at about 1,300 pages, but it will be worth it.
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The plea, which was offered before Judge Jose L. Linares of United States District Court in Newark, appears to put an end to Mr. Samson's career as a public official and power broker.
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There's Sheldon Silver, the New York State power broker whose 2015 corruption conviction was overturned because the Supreme Court has made it extremely hard for prosecutors to get political corruption charges to stick.
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More prominent people covered the speeches; my job was to watch the stage and make sure the famous developer-power broker Robert Moses, who was in his 90s, made it through the meal.
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The three concrete bunkers that line the boardwalk date back to Robert Moses, the New York City power broker and shaper, but the modern buzzing Rockaway concession scene is barely a decade old.
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Or it may be about making Mr. Kim a power broker, a man Mr. Trump and Xi Jinping — leaders of the two superpowers Mr. Kim is fixated on — must treat as an equal.
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Through charm, guile and a shrewd ability to read the winds of change, he galvanized his reputation as Mexico's timeless politician, the ultimate power broker even when his party was out of power.
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Though he was a dandy with a taste for cigars and tailored suits, Mr. Seabrook was also a power broker who wielded control over Rikers Island and had numerous connections to local politicians.
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The salt-and-pepper-bearded and perpetually gregarious son of a New Jersey cookie factory worker, Stillitano, 282, might be the most powerful, most well-connected soccer power broker you've never heard of.
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While Putin ruled out changing the constitution to allow one person to serve more than two terms as president, he will almost certainly remain the principal power broker within the Russian political system.
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But Mr. Xiao also appears to have done business with relatives of other party leaders, including Zeng Qinghong, a former vice president and power broker whom Mr. Xi may consider a potential threat.
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In Robert Caro's "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York," he is held almost personally responsible for the social ills that beset New York in the sixties and seventies.
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A onetime soccer dad who coached his son's team in New Rochelle, N.Y., Mr. Blazer moved from the local and regional ranks of soccer to become a power broker at its upper levels.
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Out of courtesy, the NEC director took a meeting with a group of conservatives pushing a carbon tax, led by longtime GOP power broker Jim Baker, but that nothing came from the meeting.
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In Syria, Russia has been able to act as a power broker, bringing the warring sides together for talks where others have failed, Walker said -- and it may seek the same role in Libya.
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The army is now the main power broker in Algerian politics, and its chief of staff Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaed Salah on Monday vowed to help prosecute all people suspected of involvement in corruption.
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Since then, Kushner has become a key adviser and power broker to the President-elect during the transation, serving as a point of contact for powerful business interests, foreign governments and other powerful figures.
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And the spectacular mission exemplified America's power to project force as foreign policy commentators sketch a narrative of US weakness in which Russia's Vladimir Putin is anointed as the new Middle East power broker.
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After all, that's why she placed a badass, power-broker character at the helm of ABC's hit show Scandal, and let Meredith Grey lead the charge in Grey's Anatomy for, you know, 500 seasons.
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Farmer, a tech power broker at Microsoft, still had a personal interest in making sure the Presidential Innovation Fellows program stuck around into the new administration, so he devoted his spare time to it.
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McCarrick, who rose to be an important power broker in the American Church as Archbishop of Washington, D.C. from 2001 to 2006, has already received one of the most severe punishments short of defrocking.
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His lawyers called Marco Polo Del Nero — the current top soccer official in Brazil, whose implication in the corruption case has not affected his presidency or place in global soccer — the true power broker.
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"Moses was not making even a pretense of creating new homes for the families displaced," Robert A. Caro wrote in "The Power Broker," the Pulitzer-winning biography of the planning czar's life and career.
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Mr. Bernard, a spiritual power broker who was the first religious leader to step down from President Trump's evangelical advisory board last year, said his new development would act as a bulwark against gentrification.
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In purchasing the paper, Dr. Soon-Shiong, who in addition to his biotech businesses owns a piece of the Los Angeles Lakers, is positioning himself to become an important power broker in the city.
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The Weinstein prosecutors followed that model; though the charges against Weinstein were largely linked to encounters with just two women, four others also testified that the former Hollywood power broker had sexually assaulted them.
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He is the coach of Team Takeover, one of the top A.A.U. teams in the Washington area, and a power broker of high school basketball in this region, which is teeming with basketball talent.
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Russia emerged a leading power broker in Syria after it launched a military intervention there in 2015, turning the tide of the war in favor of its ally in Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad.
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Russia emerged a leading power broker in Syria after it launched a military intervention there in 2015, turning the tide of the war in favour of its ally in Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad.
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Last season, as the three detectives started asking questions around the murder of a Southern California power broker, they wound up kicking a hornet's nest of municipal corruption involving politicians, gangsters and corporate honchos.
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Controversial Beltway power broker and Nixon national security doyen Henry Kissinger, ex-Secretary of State George P. Schultz and former U.S senator Sam Nunn all used to serve on the Theranos board of directors.
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George Nader, a Middle East power broker who cooperated with former special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, was arrested Monday on a federal charge of transporting child pornography.
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The opposition says he has been forced to buy the loyalty of the army, historically a power broker in Venezuela, giving them top posts and juicy business contracts while turning a blind eye to corruption.
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If he does become Iraq's power broker, others say al-Sadr has developed a more pragmatic approach over time, noting his openness to the US military presence in Iraq to support the fight against ISIS.
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The bank's board members have included Ivanka Trump and former Republican U.S. senator Al D'Amato, a dealmaker and power broker in New York business and politics who has been a vocal supporter of President Trump.
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Republicans can attack Ocasio-Cortez all they want, dismissing her and mocking her as a lightweight, but they might very well be looking at a major power broker in the new era of Capitol Hill.
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The biographer Robert A. Caro, the author of "The Power Broker," a biography of Robert Moses, and a continuing, multivolume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, received the foundation's medal for distinguished contribution to American letters.
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And behind all this is the shadow of Vladimir Putin's Russia, which is re-establishing itself as a regional power broker actively hostile to American interests — and wholly unconcerned about human rights or civilian life.
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Backers include people like Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, San Francisco power broker Ron Conway, and a coterie of major Democratic donors from across Silicon Valley, including fundraiser Amy Rao.
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The president appears convinced, like his predecessor, that his personal political interests are better served by allowing Moscow to be the power broker in Syria—even if that makes America and its allies less safe.
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By the evening, he was demanding to know why the Democratic power broker Tony Podesta had not been prosecuted and expanded his attack to Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is presiding over Mr. Stone's case.
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The thing was, it could feel as though everyone who hit it big here owed a debt to Willie Brown — the showman power broker enamored of Brioni suits, well-directed patronage and his own legend.
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But she began writing letters to every local power broker she could think of, asking for a second chance and pleading for the same consideration to be extended to others who faced charges as juveniles.
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There's a moment in the film where you see Avery Brundage [the controversial American power broker and Olympic official played by Jeremy Irons] go to Germany and he sees some of the atrocities going on.
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That is the type of person whom Firtash, the ultimate power broker and a man who grew wealthy managing the interests of some of the most powerful people in the world, knows how to deal with.
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Mr. Senor now works for the conservative billionaire Paul Elliott Singer's hedge fund, Elliott Management, and is a power broker in the Republican fund-raising world, as well as a frequent guest on morning news shows.
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It saved Mr Assad at relatively small cost to itself, became the kingmaker in Syria and returned as a power-broker in the Middle East for the first time since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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There's a blandness, however, in Daniel's struggles to move on with his life as well as Tia's story, as her run against a veteran city power broker (Glynn Turman) is complicated by issues from her past.
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Carson is expected to trade in his modest, soft-spoken speeches for a more firm, authoritative tone in the weeks ahead, according to his friend and adviser Armstrong Williams, an entrepreneur and longtime Washington power-broker.
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So alarmed was he at what he said on Saturday were British officials who "underestimate the technical difficulties" that he alerted Merkel, the EU's main power broker, in an early morning call to Berlin on Thursday.
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Venezuela's opaque but powerful military - a key power-broker in past unrest - is under increasing scrutiny as socialist President Nicolas Maduro squares off with an opposition coalition desperate for his departure amid a brutal economic crisis.
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State lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), which recently raised its stake to become TIM's second biggest investor, could act as a power broker between the two rivals, whose battle has unnerved investors and government alike.
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Both political conventions — each celebrating a certain kind of New York power broker — happened to unfold as the Four Seasons, the city's high church of transactional dining, was closing its doors and auctioning off its linens.
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One evening this month, Ms. Rajkumar was knocking on doors at the Grand Street Co-ops, a housing complex once managed by Harold Jacob, known as Heshy, an Orthodox Jewish power broker aligned with Mr. Silver.
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Given that a strong minority in the party love him, he is in a position to leverage his campaign to be a real power broker in the party and push the Clinton campaign to the left.
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In a recent interview with Bloomberg News, Mohammed bin Salman, the deputy crown prince and a crucial power broker in Saudi Arabia, suggested that the Saudis would not go along with a freeze without Iran's participation.
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I had known that doing research on a President would be a lot different from doing it on Robert Moses, the subject of my previous book, "The Power Broker," but I hadn't expected anything like this.
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Late last month, Silvio Berlusconi, the leader of the center-right party Forza Italia and a likely power broker after the elections, proposed a minimum pension for mothers, once they reach the retirement age of 67.
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In the 16 years since the fall of Saddam, a Sunni Muslim, Shi'ite Iran has emerged as a key power broker in Iraqi politics, with greater influence than the United States in the Shi'ite majority country.
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The document also failed to address directly the role of Davide Casaleggio, a web consultant and Five Star power broker whose Milan office houses the web platform where the Five Star Movement's voting activity takes place.
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Mr. Clyburn, who is a member of the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives and the lone Democrat elected to Congress from South Carolina, has long been a sought-after power broker in presidential primary campaigns.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who managed Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate race, is finding this out the hard way, after his ill-advised attempt to establish himself as a power-broker in the Democratic primary.
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"Russia is in the best situation now, where it is clearly the power broker in OPEC ... but it doesn't have real commitments beyond what it commits in terms of production every 6 months or so," Wald said.
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According to interviews and documents obtained by The Verge, Palantir first approached New Orleans in 2012 through a well-known intermediary: James Carville, the Democratic Party power broker and architect of Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign.
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When Mr Priebus emerged from the election to become White House chief of staff, he looked less like a power-broker than the hangdog butler of a stately home sold to a brash and bullying new owner.
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The highest ranking African-American in Congress is an important power broker in South Carolina, where Clinton is trying to shore up a firewall against Sanders, who is giving her a much tougher race than anyone expected.
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Over the course of two decades as union president, Mr. Seabrook has gone from a jail guard patrolling the cellblocks of Rikers Island to an influential power broker, forming alliances across the political spectrum including with Gov.
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Bob BradyRobert (Bob) A. BradyIt's time to defund the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen Philadelphia Dem power broker indicted Americans connect with government at the library – so fix the Federal Depository Library Program MORE (D-Pa.).
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Yet there are moments — Johnson conspiring with a racist power broker played by an excellent Richard Jenkins — when the filmmakers seem ready to shake up the story by laying white, male power bare in all its ugliness.
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One possible power broker is Miquel Iceta, the Socialist leader in Catalonia, who is known to enjoy dancing during his party rallies but has shed his ebullient approach to convince voters that he can be Catalonia's kingmaker.
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His first masterpiece, "The Power Broker," 1,336 pages published in 843, investigated how ruthlessly Commissioner Robert Moses, never elected to anything, concreted the metropolis of Manhattan, tying it to distant suburbs by expressways, bridges, parkways and beaches.
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Now Mr. Weaver, a former University of Victoria professor, has become a power broker in the British Columbia Legislature as the leader of the provincial Green Party, in position to put his science-based theories into action.
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Venezuelans view the armed forces as the key power broker in their country, and opposition leaders have repeatedly exhorted the military to break with Maduro over what they call his erosion of democracy and brutality toward demonstrators.
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Mr. Wang's proposal was China's latest attempt to regain the initiative on the nuclear issue, which has bedeviled Beijing's efforts to stay friends with both North and South Korea and prove itself a mature regional power broker.
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Norton basically jams a tour through The Power Broker (the famously thorough 173 biography of Robert Moses, which has nothing to do with Motherless Brooklyn) into the core of his adaptation, without much to say about it.
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Joseph Crowley, the former Democratic power broker whom Ms. Ocasio-Cortez defeated in June, dealt with at least 370 constituent cases in his last full year, according to a Twitter post from his office at the time.
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Paul Manafort, a longtime Republican power-broker who ran Mr Trump's presidential campaign in 20163, faces 32 counts of fraud drawn up by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, and could spend the rest of his life in prison.
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When Jessica Mann took the stand in Harvey Weinstein's criminal trial Monday, she tried to explain why she remained in contact with the Hollywood power broker after he allegedly raped her in a New York hotel in 2013.
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It exposed definitively that Donald Trump is not the self-made man that he claims, and that he and his siblings received more than $1 billion from the real power broker of the family, Fred Trump, Donald's father.
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Robert Caro is best known now for his ongoing, multivolume biography of Lyndon Johnson, but "The Power Broker," his Pulitzer Prize-winning life of Robert Moses, would have cemented his towering reputation had it been his only book.
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With every election that he won, he felt more emboldened to describe and implement his vision for a "New Turkey" that would be bring back the old glories (imagined or real) to a proudly Muslim regional power broker.
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It was opened as Binghamton's in 1976 by Roger Gross's uncle — and Neil's father — Nelson G. Gross, a Republican power broker and millionaire who bought the boat in the early 1970s and renovated it with Victorian riverboat décor.
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Taken in sum, the conclusion is this: Gulati, who is also a part of the powerful FIFA Executive Committee and who has become a significant power broker among global soccer executives, is not going anywhere any time soon.
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Among those left off the list are Boston power broker Jack Connors Jr., Hollywood producer Jordan Horowitz, hedge fund investor John Petry and former Ambassadors Nicole Avant and John Phillips, who served in the Bahamas and Italy, respectively.
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And there were upsets in two Kentucky primary elections: In a State House race, a teacher beat out a Republican power broker, and in a congressional race, Amy McGrath, a military veteran, defeated the popular mayor of Lexington.
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It's the type of revelation that could easily turn into fodder for attacks against Cruz, who just today shored up his anti-establishment credentials by receiving the endorsement of conservative power broker Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty. pic.twitter.com/JgnmQifefV
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In the Second District, which Mr. LoBiondo held for more than 20 years, Jeff Van Drew, a state senator, has quickly attracted the endorsements of major statewide political players, including George E. Norcross, a powerful South Jersey power broker.
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Second, he sees Syria as leverage to restore Moscow not only to its role as a power broker in the Middle East, but to the status of world policeman that it shared with the United States in Soviet days.
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Enemies and allies alike must adjust to Iran becoming an uninhibited power broker in the Middle East after its nuclear deal with world powers and Saturday's lifting of sanctions that bring it to the top table of international politics.
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Accounts of those conversations suggest Preibus wants to avoid picking a big ego who would be angling to become a power broker in Washington at the same time the new White House is trying to get its sea legs.
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It has effectively won, militarily, in Syria: Today it is a power broker in that country; the victory has raised its prestige in the Middle East and provided material support for Moscow's claims to be a great power again.
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That's what they all have in common, this strangely assembled, ineffably interconnected group that includes drag queens, wandering Mormons, assorted lawyers, a breast-beating Jewish intellectual and the real-life power-broker (and Donald J. Trump mentor) Roy Cohn.
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"Atomic Marriage" is about a Hollywood power broker named Heather Thiesen, who wants to turn an evangelical businessman's best-selling guide to a happy marriage, "Atomic Doctrine," into a blockbuster romantic comedy — all while navigating her own rocky relationship.
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"China's broad objective is to let the world see it as the new power broker that can get things, like peace building and political settlements, done," said Baohui Zhang, professor of international relations at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
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Kushner, Ivanka's husband and himself a real estate investor, has also emerged as a power-broker in Trump world, though its not clear how well his skills will translate into brokering and ending the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Three years later, the two men took over Knoll International, the designer furniture firm (now known as Knoll Inc.), and in 1985 they paid $20173 million for the "21" Club, a watering hole for the city's power-broker elite.
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He has called for an extensive ethics overhaul to break up the power broker world of New Jersey politics, with calls to eliminate no-bid contracts, ban contributions from lobbyists and require all political groups to list their contributors.
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To grasp who Donald Trump is, read Robert Caro's "The Power Broker" about Robert Moses, the imperial parks commissioner of New York City who ruled transportation, construction, highways, parks and land use with an iron hand for 50 years.
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With Putin the big power broker in Syria and the US now just a bit player, Trump's challenge will be to leverage the minimal hand Obama left him in securing US interests here and in the Middle East at large.
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Call them incubators, accelerators, seed funds: By whatever name, Silicon Valley is teaming with this new kind of power broker—one that amasses people whose job it is to build and shape the fledgling businesses that may be our future unicorns.
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The Kurds have been holding Afrin with the cooperation of Russian forces, making any Turkish offensive a test, first and foremost, of how the Russians – critical backers of the Syrian regime and the major power broker in the conflict – respond.
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Some Iranian political experts, unwilling to be identified because of the sensitivity of the case, say Namazi may have been arrested because he is seen as part of business circles close to ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a veteran power broker.
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But it would be men like the Irving Thalberg, who ran Universal Studios at 22013, and Louis B. Mayer, the power broker whose predatory behavior is likened to Harvey Weinstein's, whose careers would persist through the dramatic changes of the 1920s.
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United States President Donald Trump's former strategist Steve Bannon backed away from derogatory comments ascribed to him about Trump's son in a new book that sparked White House outrage and could threaten Bannon's influence as a would-be conservative power broker.
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Qatar has for years presented itself as a mediator and power broker for the region's many disputes, but Egypt and the Gulf Arab states resent Qatar's support for Islamists, especially the Muslim Brotherhood, which they see as a political foe.
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He entered politics in 2013 and his Palmer United Party captured a crucial handful of seats in the upper house of parliament, where his party held the balance and was able to block or pass legislation as an unlikely power-broker.
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Mr. Bernard may have a reputation as a kingmaker, or "spiritual power broker," as Bill Cunningham, the political consultant and former communications director for Mr. Bloomberg, described him recently, following a storied tradition of influential black pastors in New York City.
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But it's in the Middle East that Putin has scored a major victory on the international stage, propping up his ally in Syria, Assad, securing a Russian military presence in the region and bolstering his country's status as a power broker.
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Although Mr. Silver's days as a power broker are supposed to be over, his wife, his friends and a former aide managed to overpower the candidate-selection process earlier this year and maneuver a Silver apologist onto the Democratic ballot.
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Its creator, the formidable piano teacher Fanny Waterman, retired last year at age 95, and control has passed to new blood: Paul Lewis, a British pianist, and Adam Gatehouse, a former power broker at the BBC, are now joint artistic directors.
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But Mr. Priebus, who is seeking to build a law practice as a Washington power broker who can open doors for clients, has maintained contact and occasionally visited the White House to see Mr. Trump and his own replacement, Mr. Kelly.
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Ms. Epstein said one consistent seller was "The Power Broker," Robert A. Caro's epic biography of Robert Moses, whose plan to build a highway through the neighborhood was vehemently opposed by the writer and activist Jane Jacobs and other residents.
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JOHANNESBURG — President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa on Wednesday reappointed a power broker long accused of corruption as his deputy, a fresh blow to hopes for a new cabinet free of the most tainted figures in the governing African National Congress.
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Mr. Gutiérrez was a top financial aide to the former president of the party, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, a major power broker who has also been described as the mastermind of the embezzlement scheme, according to the documents reviewed by The Times.
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Other women to watch include Rashida Tlaib, bidding to be the first Muslim woman elected to Congress in Michigan's 13th District, an opening created by the resignation of another longtime Democrat power broker, John Conyers Jr., in a sexual harassment scandal.
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In Robert Caro's 1975 biography of Mr. Moses, "The Power Broker," there is an anecdote about Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, realizing with "shock" the extent of Mr. Moses's disdain for the very people he served.
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CAPE TOWN — President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa announced the makeup of his first cabinet on Monday night, appointing well-respected officials to key positions but naming as his deputy a provincial power broker with a history of poor management.
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Harvey Weinstein viciously raped multiple women decades apart, relying on his status as a Hollywood power broker to make sure they'd never speak up about the abuse, Manhattan prosecutors told a jury in opening arguments in Weinstein's criminal trial on Wednesday.
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In another era, Mr. Cassidy, a little-known power broker in New York City politics, might have made a few phone calls and gotten the matter to go away with no more noise than the mutterings of a few insiders.
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And then there is everything that was cut from Mr. Caro's already-gargantuan books, like some 300,000 words axed from "The Power Broker" by his longtime editor, Robert Gottlieb, including extensive material on figures like Jane Jacobs and Al Smith.
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That's a monumental task; Weinstein's infamy as both a Hollywood power broker and a launching pad for the #MeToo movement means that many potential jurors have already heard about the case — and formed their own conclusions about his guilt or innocence.
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Thomas A. Bolan, who played the silent partner to the flamboyant Roy M. Cohn in their politically potent law firm for three decades but was a power broker in his own right, died on Friday at his home in Flushing, Queens.
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He was an informal adviser to the United Arab Emirates' crown prince, and he was depicted in the Mueller report as a power broker who would connect people associated with the Trump administration to interests in the Middle East and Russia.
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Indeed, he became prime minister only with the blessing of postwar Japan's most famous power broker, Kakuei Tanaka, who was prime minister from 1972 to 1974 and continued to pull the strings long after scandal forced him to step down.
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Originally conceived as a celebration of New York's municipal infrastructure for infamous "power broker" Robert Moses, the model was built for the 1964 World's Fair by a team of over 100 people led by architectural model makers Raymond Lester & Associates.
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The lawsuit, filed in October 2017, included accusations that Mr. Landesman — a power broker in the art world — had groped, attempted to kiss and sent vulgar messages to the women, and, on occasion, retaliated against them when they spurned his advances.
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The index item "Transportation" nearly fills a page in the monumental Robert Moses biography "The Power Broker," but it doesn't mention ferries; the Moses vision involved a lot of crisscrossing over and under the water, but apparently not on it.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's former strategist Steve Bannon on Sunday backed away from derogatory comments ascribed to him about Trump's son in a new book that sparked White House outrage and could threaten Bannon's influence as a would-be conservative power broker.
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Relieved to see Uganda freed from the yoke of brutal dictators, the West has given Museveni an easy ride over the last three decades, glad of his support against radical Islam and his role as power broker in the volatile Great Lakes Region.
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The former Hollywood power broker — whose arrest some of his alleged victims said is something they never thought would come to pass — was hauled around lower Manhattan in handcuffs Friday, hanging his head as he sat on a bench in arraignment court.
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His skills will be tested as he sets out to define his authority and divide Cabinet posts in a way that satisfies Kirchner, who remains a key power broker in the Peronist coalition and commands strong support from the party's left-wing hardliners.
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The event's chief underwriter and title sponsor is not a Hollywood power broker but Peter Nygard, a Finnish-born Canadian retail tycoon and aging playboy who has lately been at war with a hedge-fund billionaire over their neighboring manses in the Bahamas.
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Paul Manafort, who was Trump's campaign chairman for the 3 months through the convention, reportedly had a $10 million annual contract with a close associate of Putin for a few years beginning in 2006, and worked as a paid power broker in Ukraine.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Messy political infighting over a pipeline threatens to divide Canada's left just as it gears up to name a new leader to face Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, jeopardizing the New Democrats' chances of gaining power-broker status in the 2019 election.
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As the son of a wealthy real estate developer who inherited many of his father's political connections, and who sought to become a celebrity and power broker in his own right, Mr. Trump viewed the city as his playground for nearly four decades.
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Though she rejected the description "power broker," Ms. Pak was a feared figure in Bay Area politics for her toughness and outspokenness but also a beloved one because of her humor and her fervor in her advocacy on behalf of Chinese-Americans.
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Palmer, who was once a key power broker in parliament, entered politics in 2013 by winning the seat of Fairfax on Queensland's Sunshine Coast and his Palmer United Party captured a handful of seats, enabling the party to block or pass legislation.
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At the expense of Merkel, long Europe's key power-broker but now in her final term, there has been leftward shift in the balance of power, with the Greens, Macron and Spain's newly re-elected socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez flexing muscles.
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Khalifa Haftar, the charismatic general-turned-warlord who became a key power broker after the fall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, is back in his stronghold in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi following a health scare that sparked rumors he was dead.
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After a blistering state audit and revelations by the news media, Mr. Murphy created an investigative panel that quickly focused on tax breaks awarded to several companies linked to George E. Norcross, a Democratic power broker whose presence loomed large in Trenton.
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"All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw," the oral history of a black sharecropper in the region, won a 1975 National Book Award, besting "All the President's Men" by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and "The Power Broker" by Robert A. Caro.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Democratic Power Broker, Once a Possible House Leader, Loses New York Primary" (front page, June 27): It is refreshing that an unknown newcomer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, dethroned an established leader of the Democratic Party, Representative Joseph Crowley.
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However, an internal campaign fundraising report obtained by Politico revealed that Buttigieg's campaign omitted more than 20 major fundraisers from its list, including the names of "uberwealthy supporters" such as Boston power broker Jack Connors Jr. and hedge fund investor John Petry.
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Russia's entry into the Kurdish-controlled region, days after President Trump abruptly withdrew U.S. forces and cleared the way for Turkey to invade, presents the Kremlin with an opportunity to cast itself as a potentially decisive power broker in the complex conflict.
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DOHUK, Iraq — Russia asserted itself in a long-contested part of Syria on Tuesday after the United States pulled out, giving Moscow a new opportunity to press for Syrian army gains and project itself as a rising power broker in the Middle East.
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But then she and Josh, a power broker on the Bravo series, had an "a-ha moment," and turned to one of his own listings: a 1930s traditional 6-bedroom, 7-bathroom home that had been sitting on the market for months.
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The question going forward is if that depth of support will prove isolated to South Carolina, where Mr. Biden had deep roots and the timely endorsement of Representative James E. Clyburn, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress and a state power broker.
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OSLO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Finland's state-owned gas firm and transmission system operator Gasum acquired the customer base of power broker Enegia, a company that handles the trading of about a quarter of the country's electricity use, the firm said on Friday.
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An influential political power broker who was a witness named in the Mueller report was among eight people charged with conspiring to conceal the source of excessive contributions to groups supporting Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.
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But a steep fall from power-broker status was swift when Avenatti was arrested as he was about to meet Nike lawyers last March to press his demands for millions of dollars to conduct an internal probe of the Beaverton, Oregon-based shoemaker.
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Here are some of the biggest donors from tech land, according to campaign finance records: Gayle Conway: $200,500 The wife of venture capitalist — and Democratic power broker — Ron Conway gave all her money to a committee that has attacked Kim and is supporting Breed.
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Mr. Bloomberg and his advisers called a number of prominent Democrats on Thursday to tell them he was seriously considering the race, including former Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the retired majority leader who remains a dominant power broker in the early caucus state.
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The studio executive and political power broker is facing allegations of rape, unwanted touching and assault by a number of women, including accusations of harassment by actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie, in recent stories published in The New York Times and The New Yorker.
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Stephen Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, who now must be considered a power broker in the party as a result of his work on Trump's campaign and in his administration, has aggressively campaigned for Moore as one of his "anti-establishment" candidates.
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Mr. Gottlieb and Robert Caro, the author of "The Power Broker," a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses, and an ongoing, multivolume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, fight about semicolons, which Mr. Caro finds indispensable, and Mr. Gottlieb uses only as a last resort.
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In July, the government's top spokesman, Rocco Casalino, an alumnus of the reality television show "Big Brother" and a Five Star power broker, made a thinly veiled threat to pull state funding from a newspaper, Il Foglio, which has been critical of the government.
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Last year, following revelations about sexual misconduct by the Hollywood power broker Harvey Weinstein, women came forward with a dam-burst of allegations about the situation in the House of Commons, making allegations that ranged from unwanted touching and sexual remarks to kissing and groping.
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Saudi Arabia's strategic shift to align itself with Israel and the Trump administration in recent months, in an effort by all three countries to counter Iran, has diminished Jordan's role as regional mediator with Israel and power broker in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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Indeed, in January this year conservative power broker Leonard Leo announced the creation of a group called CRC Advisors, which aims to "funnel big money and expertise across the conservative movement"—something that would be fairly redundant were the CNP so central a hub.
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Christofi didn't immediately respond to a VICE inquiry about his stroke of genius, but Shayla Love, a fellow senior staff writer at VICE, said the only way she was able to read The Power Broker (1,336 pages!!!) was by cutting her copy in half.
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BOCA DO ACRE, BRAZIL July 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - F or a farmer in Brazil's Amazon, Manoel Freire Camurca was doing pretty well for himself until a local power broker burned down his house and took the surrounding fields he had poured his life into.
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Weinstein, the studio executive and political power broker, is facing allegations of rape, unwanted touching and assault by a number of women, including accusations of sexual harassment by actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie, in recent stories published in The New York Times and The New Yorker.
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Mr. Gates was looking to re-establish himself as a Washington power broker after spending the better part of the decade before the 2016 campaign working with Mr. Manafort, his mentor and business partner, for Russia-aligned Ukrainian interests that paid them tens of millions of dollars.
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Knight Landesman, a longtime publisher of Artforum magazine and a power broker in the art world, resigned on Wednesday afternoon, hours after a lawsuit was filed in New York accusing him of sexually harassing at least nine women in episodes that stretched back almost a decade.
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Trump first became a major political figure as leader of the birther movement — the people who questioned whether Barack Obama was really a natural-born US citizen — in 2011, taking advantage of racial anxieties about a black president to turn himself into a GOP power broker.
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His rise to prominence has been welcomed by his peers, but it has also raised questions for many in Los Angeles about who should take on the mantle of benefactor, power broker and possible political leader for an increasingly diverse city where inequality is visible everywhere.
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But Mr. Levy, an admirer of poetry and of Sir Thomas More, whose chancellorship under King Henry VIII may have been the ultimate thankless job, plunged into his new position with optimism, nervous humor and the frenzied pace of a power broker eager to shake things up.
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Lai's testimony in federal court forced Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah of Kuwait, a powerful power broker in soccer and the Olympic movement, to quit his soccer roles after allegations surfaced in Lai's guilty plea that he had bribed Asian officials, though he denies any wrongdoing.
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And he had incentive to cooperate again in the run-up to the 2016 election, as he tried to win permission to travel more easily to the United States, where he has long sought more freedom to do business and greater acceptance as a global power broker.
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Eleven months later, an examination by The New York Times has found that Mr. Lhota's reach as a power broker has grown with new board appointments in Manhattan and on Long Island, giving him extraordinary sway over some of the most important aspects of New York life.
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The trial begins more than two years after bombshell stories in The New York Times and The New Yorker quoted women who accused Weinstein of sexual abuse, harassment, secret settlements and generally using his influence as a Hollywood power broker to take advantage of young women.
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It would be hard to overstate how striking it was to see northern power broker Atta Mohammad Noor, ethnic Hazara leader Mohammad Mohaqiq, and Panjshiri Tajik politician Yunus Qanuni, all longstanding opponents of the Taliban, sitting -- and praying -- at the same table with the Taliban delegates.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Social Democrat Party (PSD) proposed a leftist woman from the country's tiny Muslim minority as prime minister on Wednesday, a close associate of PSD power broker Liviu Dragnea who was ruled out of the job after being convicted in a 2012 referendum rigging case.
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As the characters dance, the camera becomes one of them, letting our eyes flicker, in succession, over a power broker spinning his nanny; the man's wife seething in the background; and then a mistress in a moment of fraught joy, swaying with her lover's little boy.
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On the minority side, Bob BradyRobert (Bob) A. BradyIt's time to defund the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen Philadelphia Dem power broker indicted Americans connect with government at the library – so fix the Federal Depository Library Program MORE is the ranking member on House Administration.
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It begins with a page in a notebook, a pen and patience, says Mr. Caro, who is writing his fifth volume on the Shakespearean life of Lyndon B. Johnson, and whose biography of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker," captured the twisted glories and failures of 20th century New York.
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Nine months away from mid-term elections that could determine the success or failure of his presidency, his daughter, Sara Duterte, is fast emerging as a power-broker who is aiming to shore up support for his ambitious policy agenda, and, say some experts and insiders, his eventual succession.
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The Huntsman name faded from view until after the election, when it emerged that Huntsman's father, a stupendously wealthy power-broker in Utah and Mormon political circles, had been the source of Harry Reid's unsubstantiated yet damaging claims that Romney had paid no income taxes for a decade.
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We now call the comic star of "Henry the Fourth" Falstaff rather than Oldcastle because an influential power broker complained about it, and Shakespeare's company's "Tragedy of Gowrie," about a failed assassination attempt on the life of King James was censored and closed after two sold-out performances.
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He studies housing policy in his spare time, and on a shelf in his Bronx office he keeps "The Power Broker," Robert Caro's book about how Robert Moses built modern-day New York, and "Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century," by Nicholas Dagen Bloom.
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She was led past her main political rival, George E. Norcross III, a Democratic power broker who was at the hearing to testify in support of an $11 billion economic incentive program that Ms. Altman had criticized harshly and that is the subject of state investigations and subpoenas.
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When it comes to oil, Saudi Arabia, OPEC's top producer, has fought to maintain its market share, while Iran has worked to protect its nascent comeback as a power broker in the cartel, a role it lost in recent years under Western sanctions tied to its nuclear program.
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Here are the books mentioned in this week's "What We're Reading": "Autumn" by Ali Smith "The Power Broker" by Robert A. Caro "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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First elected to Congress in 1982, he quickly built a reputation as a power broker and has allied with every Brazilian president since Collor in 1990, even as the ruling ideology shifted to the left under the governments of Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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"He's a power broker with close links to the Kremlin, who used to be the proxy to one of the most dangerous criminals in the world, who is interested to keep Ukraine closer to Russia," said Daria Kaleniuk, the head of the Anti-Corruption Action Centre, a leading NGO in Kyiv.
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But while Trump remains a visible brand name around the city's five boroughs, it is much harder to discern his imprint as a classic power broker, someone who is feared and can make things happen with a phone call or a quiet aside with the right person at the right time.
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And while the Trump brand is as visible in New York City as it is in Nevada — and he has tied his image to his roots as a New Yorker — a review of his holdings in the city shows that he is not the power broker he perhaps once was.
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In the interim, Mr. Caro's biography of the public works titan, "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York," which he wrote for an advance of $5,000, has had 49 printings and was recently bought for publication in China, where it has been available in unauthorized editions.
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Should Mr. Sweeney lose, Mr. Murphy's plan to raise the minimum wage to $15, provide more funding for Planned Parenthood and legalize marijuana would face a much more difficult legislative path, not just because the Democratic advantage in the Senate would shrink, but because Mr. Sweeney is an adroit power broker.
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But to get such a rescue programme in place, the new government would have to overcome the objections of Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian-backed power broker in Prime Minister Hassan Diab's cabinet and its Christian and Shi'ite allies, who are concerned about the austerity measures an IMF rescue would involve.
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Separately, we looked at Mr. Trump's billionaire friend Tom Barrack, above, "a fellow tycoon and a flattering courtier, a confidant and a power broker" who has helped Mr. Trump become seen as perhaps the best friend in the White House that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have ever had.
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GENEVA — Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah of Kuwait, a powerful power broker in soccer and the Olympic movement, resigned from his post on FIFA's governing council and said he was resigning from all of his soccer roles after allegations in a United States federal court that he bribed Asian officials.
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Here are the books mentioned in this week's "What We're Reading": "The Power Broker" by Robert A. Caro "The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For" by Alison Bechdel "Sabbath's Theater" by Philip Roth We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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But to get such a rescue program in place, the new government would have to overcome the objections of Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian-backed power broker in Prime Minister Hassan Diab's cabinet and its Christian and Shi'ite allies, who are concerned about the austerity measures an IMF rescue would involve.
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The elder Mr. Skelos, who is accused of bribery, extortion and conspiracy, may effectively be wagering that jurors will find his word as a long-serving Republican state senator and former Albany power broker more credible than that of the other witnesses, several of whom have plea agreements with the government.
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Willie Brown, a longtime Democratic power broker and a former mayor of San Francisco and speaker of the California Assembly, said in an interview that he has consulted for PG&E for the past decade, and recently approached Mr. Newsom with a message that the company paid him to deliver.
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A show as sexually provocative and testosterone-driven as "Billions" wouldn't seem to survive much scrutiny, particularly an episode in which a power broker like Mike makes it plain what he expects of women — in bed and at work — and succeeds indirectly in driving his best portfolio manager out of the company.
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The library is celebrating their work with author lectures that began last year and with a new "Made at NYPL" exhibition series that started this month and features Robert A. Caro, who researched his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker," in the early 1970s at the main branch.
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There's conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi's aborted plea deal; would-be Middle East power broker George Nader's lengthy cooperation with Mueller, which has resulted in no public charges; the mysterious Seychelles meeting between Blackwater mercenary founder Erik Prince and a Russian businessman; and then, of course, the big question of obstruction of justice.
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Whether you're a D.C. power broker or on a Tinder date, these dimly lit cocktail joints will provide enough hydration and social lubrication to help you close whatever deal you have in mind—or, if you just want to get completely wrecked (out of despair or exhilaration) after the results of yesterday's election.
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Walter LaFeber, a professor emeritus of American history at Cornell University, said that Mr. Shultz was able to offer the United States a sense of continuity when Ronald Reagan began to slip intellectually, and he did so without alienating the president or his wife, Nancy Reagan, a key power broker within his administration.
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General Suleimani had long played a role as power broker in Iraqi politics, and two Iraqi politicians with links to Iran said he was coming to Baghdad to help break an impasse over replacing the prime minister after the collapse of the government in November in the face of anti-Iran protests.
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Opening statements in his trial are expected to begin Wednesday, more than two years after bombshell stories in The New York Times and The New Yorker quoted women who accused Weinstein of sexual abuse, rape, harassment and generally using his influence as a Hollywood power broker to take advantage of young women.
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A memorial to those who lost their lives in 21957 In the opening novel, when a local power broker is found dead in a dicey part of town with his pants around his ankles, a coroner rules that he had died of natural causes, and officials pressure Montalbano not to look further.
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JOHNSON: "Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson," by Robert A. Caro Robert Caro, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Power Broker," has written four volumes of his biography of Lyndon B. Johnson so far, with more to come — making the selection of just one of his installments a challenge.
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"Rey is a Palpatine" implies Emperor Palpatine fathered a secret child on top of being a galactic power broker and Sith lord, murdered that child a couple decades later, and started a massive long con to lure his granddaughter into being the heir that a string of surrogate sons had failed to become.
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While the gas-exporting nation is still determined to remain a power broker in the Middle East turmoil, its use of Al Jazeera as a megaphone in support of that goal appears to be on the wane under the young emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, former Qatari officials and Arab commentators say.
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Just before the holidays, the Daily Beast reported that Mueller is moving toward making public one of his most-investigated-yet-least-seen inquiries: The impact of Middle Eastern influence in the 17983 campaign, focused around would-be power broker George Nader and Blackwater mercenary group founder Erik Prince (brother of Education secretary Betsy DeVos).
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This brings us to Philadelphia's remaining representative, Congressman Bob BradyRobert (Bob) A. BradyIt's time to defund the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen Philadelphia Dem power broker indicted Americans connect with government at the library – so fix the Federal Depository Library Program MORE (D-PA1), who is also the chairman of the Democratic City Committee.
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He had led the Quds force for nearly 20 years, "working as a power broker and as a military force: assassinating rivals, arming allies, and, for most of a decade, directing a network of militant groups that killed hundreds of Americans in Iraq," as Dexter Filkins wrote in a New Yorker profile in 2013.
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Here are the books (and the article) mentioned in this week's "What We're Reading": "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro "A Separation" by Katie Kitamura "Trial by Fire" by David Grann "The Throwback Special" by Chris Bachelder We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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Senators leaving Tuesday's briefing seemed to indicate that Trump's isolationist impulses are going to win out, regardless of the consequences for US global influence, American national security interests or the fate of the region, where Iran is vying for larger influence and Russia has established itself as a power broker, edging out the US. Democratic Sen.
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Having created a movement campaign that galvanized millions of people, Sanders now finds himself in the unfamiliar role of party power broker as Democrats gather to nominate Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE for president.
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President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's decision to withdraw from Syria makes Russian President Vladimir Putin the unchallenged power broker in Syria.
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At a time when Afscme and other public sector unions have come under relentless pressure from conservative activists and politicians — "probably the most perilous moment the public sector labor movement has faced since its emergence in the '19993s and '21999s," said Joseph A. McCartin, a labor historian at Georgetown University — Mr. Saunders is emerging as an increasingly important Washington power broker.
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Greg Harper (R-Miss.) and Bob BradyRobert (Bob) A. BradyIt's time to defund the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen Philadelphia Dem power broker indicted Americans connect with government at the library – so fix the Federal Depository Library Program MORE (D-Pa.), says Congress has not done enough to end the culture of harassment that is pervasive on the Hill.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Paul Manafort, the political consultant and Trump presidential campaign chairman whose lucrative work in Ukraine and ties to well-connected Russians made him a target of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly four years in prison in the financial fraud case that left his grand lifestyle and power-broker reputation in ruins.
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And in Ms. Youngblood's race, the Second Congressional District in the southernmost part of the state, her Democratic opponent, Jeff Van Drew, a moderate state senator who had an A rating from the National Rifle Association, won the support of George Norcross, an influential political power broker in South Jersey, and earned the county endorsement in all eight counties in the district.
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Here are the books mentioned in this week's "What We're Reading": "The Power Broker" by Robert A. Caro "Give Me Everything You Have" by James Lasdun "The Examined Life" by Stephen Grosz "You Learn by Living" by Eleanor Roosevelt "My Utmost" by Macy Halford We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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Here are the books mentioned in this week's "What We're Reading": "Right and Left" by Joseph Roth "Irrational Man" by William Barrett "How to Be a Tudor" by Ruth Goodman "Into the Nest" by Laura Erickson "The Power Broker" by Robert A. Caro We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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They were in the stadium for his induction, which Jones earned not only for winning three Super Bowls within six years of buying the team, but for being a power broker within the N.F.L. Jones has been a key figure as the league grew to a multibillion-dollar business, having a hand in many important decisions, from television contracts to sponsorships to labor issues.
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While Issa and his friends (contemptuously called "bugs" by some of their elders) run amok with varying degrees of abandon, they're observed by their neighbors — including the Muslim Brotherhood, a local power broker and his minions and a group of no-nonsense high school girls — as well as crime-busting cops, one of whom, a tightly coiled veteran named Chris (Alexis Manenti), has a particularly short fuse.
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Besides books I've reread for work or research, I often find myself returning to books because of prompts from news events ("The Power Broker," by Robert Caro; "Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image," by David Greenberg), the release of a new movie (Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," Plath's "The Bell Jar") or by happening across a new edition of an old favorite in a bookstore.
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Joye Cottage, built in 1835, was at first a farmhouse and then a boardinghouse, before it was worked over by Stanford White, and then Carrère & Hastings, into a rambling family estate — a sampler of Gilded Age styles — for William Collins Whitney, a voracious house collector, power broker and rake, and his second wife, Edith Randolph, who broke her neck riding and died soon after they had moved in.
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Every major Democratic power broker in the state quickly endorsed Mr. Menendez for re-election in 2018: Philip D. Murphy, the governor-elect; Senator Cory Booker; Stephen M. Sweeney, the senate president; Craig Coughlin, the incoming speaker of the State Assembly; George E. Norcross, an influential political leader in southern New Jersey; and the county chairs in northern Democratic strongholds such as Bergen, Hudson, Passaic, Essex and Middlesex.
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In July, McCarrick became the first cardinal to resign in nearly 100 years after American Church officials said allegations made in a separate investigation that he had sexually abused a 16-year-old boy almost 50 years ago were credible and substantiated.. That investigation was not related to the accusations that McCarrick, who rose to be a key power broker in the American Church, had engaged in sexual misconduct with adult males for years.
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The CLF has been a major power broker in House campaigns this year, sending more than $10 million into the four special elections to fill open seats created by President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's Cabinet nominations.
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In July, McCarrick became the first cardinal to resign in nearly 100 years after American Church officials said allegations made in a separate investigation that he had sexually abused a 16-year-old boy almost 50 years ago were credible and substantiated.. That investigation was not directly related to the accusations that McCarrick, who rose to be a key power broker in the American Church, had engaged in sexual misconduct with adult males for years.
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Mayor Jim Kenney, Governor Tom Wolf, and Congressman Bob BradyRobert (Bob) A. BradyIt's time to defund the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen Philadelphia Dem power broker indicted Americans connect with government at the library – so fix the Federal Depository Library Program MORE have a strong record of financial and campaign manpower support from unions like TWU local 234 and Local 98, which presents a clear conflict of interest in dealing with strike negotiations.
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If you look in the political world, he's a power broker the way people in the political world ... Right, we get that idea in politics and media was a newish idea, and he is the reason, again, if you're not following the media world that closely, probably weird that you're listening to this podcast, but the reason that CES is now a media event, at least as much as go look at a fancy TV event, that's Michael Kassan.
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Y.) and Bob BradyRobert (Bob) A. BradyIt's time to defund the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen Philadelphia Dem power broker indicted Americans connect with government at the library – so fix the Federal Depository Library Program MORE (D-Pa.) introduced legislation in the House – The Currency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings (COINS) Act of 2017 – that encourages common-sense reforms that will save American taxpayers up to $16 billion without one budget cut or raised tax.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union needs to come up with a strategy for dealing with China's growing economic and political role, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday, including dealing with targeted attempts at dividing the EU. "We need a common strategy for dealing with China's power political ambitions," he told a Berlin audience, "including for resisting targeted attempts at dividing us," in reference to concerns at China's growing role as a power-broker in central and eastern Europe.
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Led by Chairman Gregg HarperGregory (Gregg) Livingston HarperCongress sends bill overhauling sexual harassment policy to Trump's desk Dems cry foul in undecided N.C. race Mississippi New Members 2019 MORE (R-Miss.) and Ranking Member Bob BradyRobert (Bob) A. BradyIt's time to defund the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen Philadelphia Dem power broker indicted Americans connect with government at the library – so fix the Federal Depository Library Program MORE (D-Pa.), the committee members introduced the FDLP Modernization Act (H.
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Having bought an apartment there (he also continued to live in Decatur), he recruited others to do the same, among them Senator Dole; Thomas P. O'Neill, the House speaker; Howard H. Baker Jr., the Senate Republican leader; Robert S. Strauss, the Democratic power broker and at one point an Archer Daniels Midland board member; Thomas E. Dewey, the former governor of New York; and David Brinkley, a close friend, who, after retiring from ABC, was criticized for doing television commercials for the company.
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He remained into his 80s one of the most recognized American cardinals on the global stage, a Washington power broker who participated in funeral masses for political luminaries like Edward M. Kennedy, the longtime Massachusetts senator, and Beau Biden, the son of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Suddenly, last month, Cardinal McCarrick was removed from ministry, after the Archdiocese of New York deemed credible an accusation that he had molested a 16-year-old altar boy nearly 50 years ago.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Ulrike Ottinger, "Jacobs Pilger [Jacob's Pilgrims]" (1981) (From FREAK ORLANDO) Analog color print from transparency, 60 × 40 cm (83 5/8 × 15 237/29 in.) (Images courtesy Bridget Donahue Gallery)In Ulrike Ottinger's transgressive photographs, on view at Bridget Donahue Gallery, gender bends freely: Glinda the Good Witch becomes a bearded queen in a shopping mall; Dorian Grey becomes a sleek, feminine power broker; and a pearl-clad pirate wears cut-and-pasted body hair on her bare chest.
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Yes, that Massachusetts team, coached by Calipari, now the power broker of a Kentucky program that has most actively promoted — if not invented — a recruiting policy encouraging the best high school players to drop by for a season on their way to the N.B.A. In this intricately woven bluegrass tapestry, Pitino eventually moved on to become Calipari's not-so-friendly in-state rival in Louisville, where the successful women's coach, Jeff Walz, was one of many who rolled out a welcome mat for Makayla, a McDonald's all-American.
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"What happened here is simple: Reporters knew they were going to go toe-to-toe today with one of the few committed nationalists in the White House on the pet issue of the populist right, the one that helped Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE get elected and turned Steve Bannon into a power broker," Allahpundit wrote.
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Here's the list: "Catch-22," by Joseph Heller (20063) "Beloved," by Toni Morrison (1987) "His Dark Materials" Trilogy, by Philip Pullman (1995-2000) "White Teeth," by Zadie Smith (2000) "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Díaz (2007) "The Fire Next Time," by James Baldwin (1963) "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," by Joan Didion (1968) "The Power Broker," by Robert Caro (1975) "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," by David Foster Wallace (1997) "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," by Dave Eggers (2000) "Persepolis," by Marjane Satrapi (2003) "Fun Home," by Alison Bechdel (2006) Students: Read the entire article, then tell us: — What books do you think every teenager should read?
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