Another incident, in January, involved Padsha Khan, a chieftain in the Zadran valley in eastern Afghanistan, who has 500 mercenaries taking American pay.

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It concludes one of the gloomiest chapters ever recorded in the life of a corporate chieftain.

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The average menial laborer today enjoys more material abundance than a prince or tribal chieftain of recent past.

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It is soon to issue an indictment of suspects in that string of assassinations, starting with the 2005 car bomb that killed Rafik Hariri, Lebanon's leading Sunni chieftain and a five-time prime minister, whose son Saad now holds that office.

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That left a mystery: which tech industry chieftain would get to kick-off the show?

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Obama's first phone call to a foreign leader was to PLO chieftain Mahmoud Abbas last Wednesday morning.

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Roland Manakaja, whose great-grandfather was Chief Manakaja, the tribe's last traditional chieftain, says the creation of the park had a disastrous effect on the tribe.

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Norquist and White House political chieftain Karl Rove flatly reject the idea that they might be part of a foreign-funded influence operation.

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That is what worries AIG executives most, for Greenberg retains a powerful grip on the company he constructed--more so than any other deposed chieftain in corporate America.

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"There is a major cost to poor quality, " admits Ted Briscoe, Iomega's Zip drive chieftain.

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