"The Muse"'s one-joke monotony is relieved on occasion, usually by unexpected cameos from Brooks' film-world cronies.
"We can't tolerate a market rigged for the benefit of insiders and their cronies, " he added.
Packing the court is an Argentine tradition: the departing justices were cronies of Mr Menem.
They cluster into tight-knit groups of cronies, who battle other crony bands for dwindling spoils.
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There are other alleged cronies, but none of them is as mysterious or as all-embracing.
The very banks that cronies of the two main Spanish parties ran and crashed.
Worse, some firms might be bought back by the cronies, proven experts at manipulating the system.
Mr Hussein has chosen instead to spend billions of dollars on perks for himself and his cronies.
He reckons that, in all, Mr Montesinos and his cronies may have pocketed several hundred million dollars.
Chuck Shipley, a Tulsa lawyer who has represented several Cherokees against Mr Byrd, blames the chief's cronies.
Washington-centric bureaucracies staffed by cronies and incompetents overwhelmed the efficiency of local offices, often closing them down.
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Such a move would suggest Mr Brown's retreat into a bunker crammed with cronies, say Labour MPs.
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Like the Likud under Binyamin Netanyahu, Ya'alon is proof positive that Livni and her cronies are lying.
Mr Lexa's wealth, and that of some other cronies of Mr Meciar, was largely stolen from the state.
It is more apparent than ever that the game is rigged in favor of special interests and cronies.
Old partners-in-crime may well prefer him dead, and old cronies still in office could pull strings for him.
The return of the cronies prompted Manila archbishop Cardinal Jaime Sin to issue a pastoral letter July 19.
She vows transparency and a level playing field, to bid out all government contracts, and not to coddle cronies.
But if the public shareholders have suffered, Black and his cronies have not.
Meanwhile, Mr Ahmadinejad has forwarded a cabinet list for parliamentary approval that reflects the influence of his IRGC cronies.
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Although Mr Suharto and his cronies set the standard for corruption, ordinary Indonesians have proved adept at keeping pace.
If the governor's cronies succeed, they may try to repeal the city charter and its curbs on his authority.
He called for the restoration of Zelaya to the Honduran presidency, echoing the desires of Chavez and his cronies.
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This, of course, is how cronies survive from one presidency to the next, how they regain their privileged positions.
Equally unhelpful has been the Cariocas' soft spot for populist leaders who have handed over plum law-enforcement posts to cronies.
The president told the Philippine Congress last week that, although he was blessed with many friends, he had no cronies.
He lured a few Fred Meyer cronies to help him, including designated successor Mary Sammons , now head of operations.
Suharto's rule has always been a tug-of-war between technocrats and cronies, between those who craft policy and those who dispense patronage.
In practice, sources say, Mr Robertson and his cronies continued running the British merchant bank just as they had always done.
Gone are long-time Hess family cronies like Nicholas Brady and Tom Kean and seven other incumbents who had precious little oil-and-gas experience.
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