But even after Lopez pulled strings, Usher had concerns about the appearance.
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I pulled strings to get performers and an M.C. for the event.
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Essentially, he pulled strings to build his fortune, and only will continue to.
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Valenti pulled strings at Overstock to sponsor the event, which was attended by more than 4,000 people.
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But Angela has just pulled strings to have him fired, so security is looking to escort him from the building.
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Wendy has officially walked out on him after learning that Bobby, not Chuck, was the one who pulled strings to keep her medical license.
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But there's no evidence that Hunter's work influenced the Obama administration's foreign policy, or that Joe Biden pulled strings to get Hunter his position.
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CNN spoke to two experts in college admissions and higher education law about the potential outcome for students whose parents pulled strings to get them into prestigious universities.
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Mr. Bush later wrote in his autobiography that he had been "disgusted" by the jockeying for pardons by people with connections who pulled strings for their friends and wealthy benefactors.
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The accounts portray a scheming plotter and academic cheater who may have pulled strings to enter the police college and may have been directly involved in the July coup attempt.
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The New York Times later referred to it as "Weinstein's Complicity Machine," — the way in which he pulled strings and used powerful relationships to keep women quiet by threatening their careers.
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In the 1960s, there were numerous ways to avoid military service, especially for the sons of wealthy and connected families, but Mr. Trump has said that no one pulled strings for him.
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Just last month, the New York Times reported that Auer and other DeVos aides had "pulled strings" for failing for-profit colleges -- including Dream Center Education Holdings, which operated the Illinois Institute of Art.
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Messina hints to Peña that after Murphy's airport run-in with the law (which the DEA, of course, pulled strings to get him out of), she might be making some "changes" regarding Murphy's job status.
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The ambient light and soft shadows cast by the tightly pulled strings are all part of the experience; the open construction feels solid and ephemeral, strong and vulnerable, tough and delicate — I was captivated by the simple beauty of it all.
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The indictment said Manafort did manage to secure a position for Calk in 2016 on the Trump campaign's economic advisory committee, and later pulled strings to get Calk a formal interview with the Trump transition team for a job as undersecretary of the Army, although Calk was not ultimately hired.
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Pulled string painting Pulled string painting is a painting method using pulled strings.
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Wolfe also pulled strings with Adolph Berle, an official in the State Department. Reich wrote in his diary in May 1939: > I am sitting in a completely empty apartment waiting for my American visa. I > have misgivings as to how it will go.
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Although he tried to discourage Lyons from pickpocketing, she continued to do so. In 1870 Ned was caught during an attempted bank robbery in Wyoming County, New York and sent to Auburn Correctional Facility. Sophie pulled strings to get him moved to Sing Sing prison, where security was more lax. However she was convicted of shoplifting and sent to Sing Sing herself in 1871.
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Although his home town is in the central United States, Cutter always wanted a life at sea. When he found out the Joe Team had no members from the Coast Guard, he pressured the Coast Guard, until they pulled strings to get him on the team and out of their hair. Cutter wears a cap similar to the one worn by the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
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Hussain's son grows up as Shankar (Ramana) in Sundaram's house, whereas Sundaram's son grows up as Ameer (Mohankumar) in Hussain's house. Ameer falls in love with Shankar's cousin Anu (Rekha Unnikrishnan), while Shankar falls in love with Ameer's relative Zarina (Ragini Nandwani). Thereafter, Ameer and Shankar become friends and decide to support their love. Sabapathy, who pulled strings to create conflicts between Muslims and Hindus, is ultimately killed.
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Historical Perkins Perkins was founded during the Land Run in April 1889. Joseph Wert staked a claim for 160 acres and offered up 40 acres of his land to be established as a township. The town went through three names in its first year- Cimarron, Italy, and then Perkins. The last name was for Bishop Walden Perkins, a congressman from Kansas who pulled strings to establish the post office for the new township.
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Ben Pimlott later described this as the "biggest political misjudgement of her reign".Thorpe 2010, pp. 569–70 the quote appears in "The Queen" 1996, p. 335 Macmillan was succeeded by Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home in a controversial move; it was alleged that Macmillan had pulled strings and utilised the party's grandees, nicknamed 'The Magic Circle', who had slanted their "soundings" of opinion among MPs and Cabinet Ministers to ensure that Butler was (once again) not chosen.
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Huang Kan's father was old friends with Zhang Zhidong (张之洞), the Viceroy of Huguang (a very high-ranking position in the Qing government). Recognizing Huang Kan's talent and wanting to do a favor for his old friend, Zhang pulled strings to sponsor Huang Kan to study in Japan. Huang Kan started studying at Waseda University in 1903, which was during the period leading up to Xinhai Revolution, the revolution that eventually overthrew the Qing monarchy.
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However, it was later revealed that Ryan took the blame for the incident, later losing his position within the Bureau. One year prior to the Grand Central bombing, it was revealed that Liam was demoted from his position within the Bureau. However, Miranda pulled strings to allow him to work as an instructor at the Academy. During his time at the Academy, he had a one-night stand with one of the recruits, Alex, on New Year's Eve.
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After offering Bob an extended vacation to be with his family, Ebony reveals that she has pulled strings to get Tim into the best pediatric hospital in New York, and will personally fund his care to help him recover. That night, the concert is a big success. During the show, Ebony declares all proceeds and donations (which equate to over $1 million) will go to charity. She informs Ernie that he's fired and has him arrested for his embezzlement by the police.
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He was a disabled veteran of World War I, a victim of tuberculosis, and a Communist, but he pulled strings to be admitted. However, biographer Diane Johnson suggests that confusion over Hammett's forenames was the reason he was able to re- enlist.Johnson, D. (1983) Dashiell Hammett: A Life He served as a sergeant in the Aleutian Islands, where he edited an Army newspaper entitled The Adakian. In 1943, while still a member of the military, he co-authored The Battle of the Aleutians with Cpl.
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Terry blames Frank, who insisted the car was ready, until Jane reveals she pulled strings to have Frank included in the project. Thinking that she loves Frank and wanted him to get all the credit for success, Terry angrily sends her away. While Terry is recovering from his injury, Jane goes to bat for him. Emery's board of trustees have suspended further financing for the carburetor, but Jane gets their decision reversed, since she is secretly Jane Emery, the niece and heiress of the company's owner.
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King pulled strings from above instead of pushing from below, the standard string bending technique. As a result, he was able to bend several strings simultaneously, which allowed for multi-timbral phrasing. When asked about King's style of play, Jackson said: "Albert's guitar was always out of tune with everything else, but he was such a strong man he would just bend the notes back in!" Side one of Born Under a Bad Sign features six short songs, which are all under three minutes long.
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The residents of Sandakan and West Coast were members of the Legislative Council, the Legislative Assembly of the Company. The election of Cowie to the board of directors in 1894 marked the beginning of a major change in the style of administration: Before, North Borneo was governed by the company, and the governors were fully empowered and fully responsible. But since Cowie took over, he mostly pulled strings from London. Instead of the development of North Borneo, the satisfaction of the shareholders was in the foreground.
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Meanwhile, Don Falcone's daughter Sofia returns to Gotham, and she and Gordon are instantly attracted to each other. However, Gordon eventually learns that Sofia pulled strings to get him promoted so she could have someone loyal to her running the GCPD. When Sofia instigates the murder of her own father, Gordon confronts her, and learns that she hired Professor Pyg to terrorize the city and give Gordon a chance to be a hero. She kills Pyg, and tells Gordon that he can ally with her or lose any chance he has of making Gotham safe.
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When Luke and Laura were planning their new wedding, Laura's adoptive father, Dr. Rick Webber, returned to town. Scott and Rick had some kind of shared secret, and Rick pulled strings to help Scott get elected to a position as District Attorney. It seemed that Laura was starting to remember something, and Scott and Rick went to the Scorpios' yard, where they dug up the human skeleton of Rick's old mistress, who had been killed (accidentally) by Laura. When Laura remembered and tried to confront Rick, he died from a blow to the head.
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Her television credits include the 1983 mini-series La Chambre des Dames. She wrote Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight, a memoir of her relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky. For a decade, the couple maintained a long-distance relationship as Marina compromised her career in France in order to spend more time in Moscow, and his friends pulled strings for him to travel abroad. She eventually joined the Communist Party of France, which essentially gave her an unlimited-entry visa into the Soviet Union, and provided Vysotsky with some immunity against prosecution by the government.
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Finally, after more than three months on the run, made it across the Pyrenees and over the Spanish border to Barcelona in December 1943. He was awarded the Military Cross for his escape. Back in London, he found his wife had moved on to a new relationship, and Millar befriended Isabel Beatriz Hardwell, daughter of the diplomat Montague Bentley Talbot Paske Smith (:de:Montague Bentley Talbot Paske Smith) and then still the wife of Charles George Hardwell. He was debriefed by MI5 and MI9, and then pulled strings to get into F Section of SOE (his elder brother was in MI6).
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Richard feels guilty as he has pulled strings, at Michael's request, to give a chance to prove himself, but Virginia reassures him her late husband would have done the same. Richard is equally impressed by her bravery Meanwhile, James is feeling depressed and neglected and Rose is on holiday at Southwold. Edward goes AWOL the day before he is due to go back to France. The Royal Military Police arrive at 165, and after Hudson tells Daisy that the punishment for going AWOL is the firing squad, she tells them that Edward is hiding in his father's bombed out house in Walthamstow.
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In 2005-06, he became embroiled in scandals of political nature. During this time he was accused of negotiating the non- approval of gambling laws in Mexico with Emilio Gamboa Patrón and more importantly, being involved in a pedophilia and child-trafficking network. He was named in Los Demonios del Edén (Demons of Eden), the exposé by journalist Lydia Cacho, as having pulled strings to protect child abuser Jean Succar Kuri. Subsequently, he had her arrested on the charge of defamation and was captured on tape assuring the Governor of Puebla Mario Marín that she would be raped in jail.
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Steiffel then outlines the cartel's plan since the end of the war, to keep the formula secret. They had been able to keep it secret until Swiss businessman, Tauber, began searching for the members of the original Genesis team, in the hope the team could recreate the formula. Tauber's actions made the members of the Genesis team a liability to the cartel, so Steiffel had pulled strings to get Caine sent on a trip to Germany, which would serve as a cover for the cartel's plot to eliminate the remaining members. Just before leaving, Caine reveals that he sent the formula to Tauber.
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Johnston pp. 155–159 Ellis provided Joseph Ritson with a verse translation of the "Lament for the Death of Simon of Montfort", though this did not appear until after both their deaths, in Ritson's Ancient Songs and Ballads (1829); he also pulled strings to ensure Ritson's Ancient Engleish Metrical Romanceës (1802) was published. He had better success in his Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances (1805), which presented a selection of Middle English romances, not in full editions but in the form of abstracts with numerous extracts. In this way he produced a work calculated to appeal to the reading public at large rather than to antiquarian specialists.
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However, he left college and returned to Atlantic City, working his way up the ladder to become the deputy sheriff in the Commodore's machine under the close watch of Sheriff Jacob Lindsay (Boris McGiver). Nucky became sheriff after he arranged for the Commodore to rape Gillian Darmody (Gretchen Mol), who was only 13 years old at the time. Fifteen years prior to the series' timeline, Nucky lost his infant son, Enoch Jr., to pneumonia, a tragedy that drove his wife, Mabel, to commit suicide. Nucky helped raise Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt), the Commodore's son with Gillian, and pulled strings to get him into Princeton University.
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Macmillan's resignation saw a three-way tussle for the party leadership and premiership. Given that it was not considered appropriate for a Prime Minister to be a member of the House of Lords, the Earl of Home and Lord Hailsham both disclaimed their peerages under the Peerage Act 1963, and became known respectively as Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Quintin Hogg. Rab Butler was also in the running for the post, but Douglas-Home was finally chosen to succeed Macmillan. This was seen as controversial, for it was alleged that Macmillan had pulled strings and used the party's grandees, nicknamed "The Magic Circle", to ensure that Butler was once again overlooked.
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While still married to Ludmila Abramova, Vysotsky began a romantic relationship with Tatyana Ivanenko, a Taganka actress, then, in 1967 fell in love with Marina Vlady, a French actress of Russian descent, who was working at Mosfilm on a joint Soviet-French production at that time. Marina had been married before and had three children, while Vladimir had two. They were married in 1969. For 10 years the two maintained a long-distance relationship as Marina compromised her career in France in order to spend more time in Moscow, and Vladimir's friends pulled strings in order for him to be allowed to travel abroad to stay with his wife.
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Adler wrote in his memoir that the passion of his future wife Sonya Oberlander (and of her family) for theater, and their vision of what Yiddish theater could become, kept him in the profession despite his uncle's view. When she was cast by Rosenberg opposite Jacob Spivakovsky in the title role of Abraham Goldfaden's darkly comic operetta Breindele Cossack, she pulled strings so that the role of Guberman would be reassigned to Adler.[Adler 1999] pp.98–102 His success in the role was cut short by the news that Goldfaden, whose plays they were using without permission, was coming with his troupe to Odessa.
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Sidney Blackpool is invited to the corporate office of high tech industrialist Victor Watson, whose son Jack was the victim in the Palm Springs homicide. Over drinks, Watson tells Blackpool he pulled strings with LAPD to arrange for Blackpool to investigate a new lead that tenuously ties the case to Blackpool's jurisdiction in Hollywood. Blackpool suspects that the lead is a pretext to draw in the resources of LAPD after both Palm Springs and the Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to solve the case. Watson knows that Blackpool's son died at approximately the same time, and using that to engage his sympathies, persuades Blackpool to work the case as part of an expenses-paid golf vacation for himself and his partner, Otto Stringer, in Palm Springs.
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After being shown around the prison, Meehan is told to visit the prison governor's office, who tells Danny that he pulled strings to make sure he served his sentence in Longmarsh, wanting him to work as the head coach of the prison wardens' football team. Not wanting to make enemies with the other inmates, Meehan declines, and instead suggests the guards allow him to train a team made up of other convicts, who will take on the wardens in a practice match to gear them up for the new season. Shortly after, Meehan is met with an unwelcome reception his cellmates, Raj, Jerome and Trojan, who immediately express their dislike for him. Outside, Danny meets and befriends an elderly convict, Doc, who teaches him prison lore.
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Kathleen Harriman Mortimer (1917-2011) was an American journalist and socialite who played an important role in helping her father and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt with behind the scenes management of the American delegation to the Yalta Conference. Her father W. Averell Harriman was then the US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and he played an important role in assisting Roosevelt, since the conference was held Yalta, a Black Sea port part of the Soviet Union. In 1941 her father was US ambassador to the United Kingdom, and he pulled strings to arrange for her a visa, to join him, and a job as a reporter for Hearst’s International News Service. Intelligent, beautiful, and charming, she managed to be a successful war correspondent, in spite of a lack of experience.
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Kennedy pulled strings in Brisbane to get reinforcements that might guarantee greater immunity for people and property in the area, and the first Queensland Commissioner of Police D. T. Seymour is said to have given Kennedy a blank cheque to war down the tribe and to have dispatched the aristocratic Marcus de la Poer Beresford, a nephew of the Marquess of Waterford, as new head of the Cloncurry native police unit to that end. On 24 January 1883, Beresford camped with four of his troopers at in the McKinlay Range. After skirmishing with a group of Kalkatungu, they managed to corral a number, who appeared to give no resistance, into a gully nearby and post a guard over them for the night. Queensland historian Arthur Laurie suggests Beresford's error lay in 'stupidly treat(ing) them like cattle'.
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The story revolves around a perpetual loser and slacker named Richter Boudreau (Eric Stoltz). Richter is from a privileged background in Tulsa, Oklahoma and works as a movie reviewer at a local newspaper only because his sour widowed mother Cynthia (Mary Tyler Moore) pulled strings for him to land the job. He is dissatisfied with the direction that his life has taken; he is about to be fired any day from his job because he can't meet deadlines, he lives in a dilapidated farmhouse, he uses and sells drugs behind the scenes for some extra cash, and he is so irresponsible with life and finances in which he has gotten so far behind on his bills that his electricity has just been cut off which ruins a blind date he has in the opening scene with a neurotic gold-digger named Trudy (Cameron Diaz). Richter also owes money to Ronnie Stover (James Spader), an abusive drug dealer who he deals with.
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On the morning of 22 November 1963, CBS Morning News, hosted by Mike Wallace, aired a light trend segment about The Beatles and the phenomenon surrounding this musical group called Beatlemania. Though due to air later that evening on the CBS Evening News, hosted by Walter Cronkite, it was preempted by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but was eventually re-aired by Cronkite on 10 December 1963—who knew that America needed a lift in spirit from the tragedies it had just gone through. After viewing this re-aired segment on The Beatles, Albert, a 15-year-old living in Silver Spring, Maryland, wrote to her local radio station, WWDC-AM, asking disc jockey Carroll James Jr. "Why can’t we have music like that here in America?". After receiving Albert’s letter, James Jr. "pulled strings and called in favors" and received from a British Overseas Airways Corporation flight attendant a copy from England of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"—and then, on 17 December 1963, James Jr. invited Albert to his studio where she introduced the song to America for the very first time.
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Jacob Adler, in his memoir, remarks that at the time he met her, she was a student at the University of Odessa, who, like him, spoke Yiddish and Russian, but also spoke much better German than he, and also excellent French. He adds that "like all the best young people of the day" she was a nihilist, a "serious young student and revolutionary", and that her (and her family's) passion for theater, and their vision of what Yiddish theater could become, kept him in the profession through the difficult early years of his career as an actor. Her debut as a professional actress (Odessa, 1878) was in the title role of Abraham Goldfaden's darkly comic operetta Breindele Cossack, in the troupe of Israel Rosenberg, the first Yiddish theater troupe in Imperial Russia; at first she played opposite Jacob Spivakovsky, but she pulled strings so that Jacob Adler, to whom she was already close at the time, would get the role. The next few years of theatrical touring had their ups and downs; initially, so did her relationship with Adler, but they married in Poltava in 1880.
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