They have the ear of Bangkok's royal establishment, which is blamed by red-shirted leaders for pulling the plug on democracy.
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Politically, the contest is evenly matched, pitting powerful unions against the biggest taxpayers corporations and high-earners who often have the ear of politicians.
According to reports and from hearing in the past, is there tension between the Congressional Black Caucus and this President, and does the CBC have the ear of this President?
Pacifying the critics is indeed important, say analysts, not because their anti-Wal-Mart campaigns affect the shopping decisions of the company's core rural customers (they don't), but because these critics have the ear of liberal politicians who dominate urban legislatures.
As a maker of policy, particularly in Asia, Mr Bundy did have the ear of three presidents, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, during America's entanglement in Vietnam after 1954, when France, the former colonial power, was defeated by the Communists.
And not just "token" positions -- positions where your face is there but you don't really have much say -- but actually positions where people have a say in what goes on, and people have the ear of the president and make some serious contributions.
Over the last couple of weeks, many prominent economists, several of which have the ear of Ben Bernanke, have come out and said that massive QE2 is a horrible idea given that we are in a liquidity trap and it could have long-term damaging inflation implications.
That's because the people who are against, basically the large HMOs, insurers have got the ear of the congressional majority and they have a lot of political influence.
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But, in the end, Hong Kong itself may have most to gain from someone who has the ear of Tung, of the Beijing leadership as well as of the Democrats.
That's not the sirens' fault -- a mind-numbingly loud "whoop whoop" really doesn't have the bandwidth to reveal that kind of information to the human ear -- but now that SMS-capable phones are ubiquitous, it's time to smarten things up just a tad.
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Does anyone in Washington have Obama's ear on the matter of small-business health?
And perhaps they now have a bigger piece of the company's ear than the unions and other social critics do.
Club-goers in a Devon city have been given free ear plugs to highlight the dangers of exposure to loud music.
If you think you are going to get the ear of the CEO if you have any concerns in a company bigger than ten people, be prepared for a long wait.
They will also need to have ear-marked possible sites for the school and give details of any organisation they plan to work with.
Tattoos, piercings, and ear plugs all have their place in the non-interview appropriate hall of fame.
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However, the chatter and babble that I had to endure at times resulted in me keeping a pair of chain saw ear-defenders to hand - I was able to don said ear-wear when I needed to have the peace and solitude that the complexity or quantity of work demanded.
Neither man liked to have competition, least of all a woman's, for the president's ever-drifting ear.
Plenty of ear-bending from investment bankers and brokers seems to have convinced Mr Zhu that the stockmarket might yet be the salvation of China's 118, 000 industrial state enterprises.
The complaints have gotten a sympathetic ear on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have just gotten a proposal by the Treasury Department for a sweeping overhaul of financial market regulation, including the merger of the SEC with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and the reassignment of many of the SEC's enforcement duties to the stock exchanges and other self-regulatory agencies.
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