An iron law of politics holds that at times of political unravelling the fixer becomes the scapegoat and the planter of stories turns into the story itself.
Given that the fixer needs to pay off the players as well, it should be apparent that generating a profit is not going to be easy.
My fixer distracted the staff while I hurried through other buildings on the premises.
Social democrats are used to thinking of the state as the fixer of problems, not as the problem itself.
But having fallen out last year with Luis Miquilena, his former political fixer, the president is finding that he no longer exerts unchallenged sway over these institutions.
Uxbal (Javier Bardem) is a fixer on the streets of Barcelona, finding work on the sly for immigrants and keeping the deal sweet with payoffs to the police.
Nor have officials said anything about the death in November in a Chongqing hotel room of a British businessman, Neil Heywood, who reportedly was sometimes a fixer for the Bo family.
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"It is obvious that an allegation that a professional cricketer is a match fixer goes to the core attributes of his personality and, if true entirely destroys his reputation for integrity, " he said in awarding the damages.
He has a good line to the Russians, but also keeps closely in touch with Richard Holbrooke, the Americans' star Balkan fixer and ambassador-designate to the United Nations.
His skills as a behind-the-scenes fixer are widely admired among MPs and activists, not least for the key job he played in helping to oust the Militant Tendency from power in his beloved Liverpool in the 1980s.
As the arch political fixer, Mr Mukherjee was an obstacle to reform, since it involves overriding the interests of some coalition partners and, often, may be unpopular with voters.
Mr Clark's probable replacement as head of a revamped Cabinet Office was thought to be Peter Mandelson, the prime minister's fixer, who has been notably unenthusiastic about the freedom of information bill.
That seems likely, however, to come in the form of the chairmanship of the assembly electing the next president, where he can deploy his experience as a political fixer to ensure nobody forgets the script.
During the 35-year dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner, he was a political fixer and then head of the Supreme Court, enforcing censorship and persecution of the regime's opponents.
He bought the building as a family home and fixer-upper in 1992, when the TriBeca neighborhood was still a no-mans-land.
This is the sort of challenge that the political fixer in Mr Persson clearly relishes.
Ubisoft intends to release a massive fixer-patch in the coming days.
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In Baghdad, Othman told me that a new passport would cost him six hundred dollars, paid to a fixer with connections at the passport offices.
Unsustained by anything resembling directorial control, Luke Wilson holds the screen for almost two hours in a front-and-center turn as Jack Harris, a Houston-based business fixer who, in the mid-nineties, had an Internet version of greatness thrust upon him.
Decrease in activity coupled with fierce competition from investors targeting distressed inventory means the possibility of picking up a decent fixer-upper at a discounted price from the bank has greatly narrowed.
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He has now created a leaner, more aggressive, and emotionally much thinner piece of work, and the presence of Ray Winstone, in the role of a secretive fixer, serves only to confuse, rather than to enrich, the complexity of the setup.
We can only imagine what he would say in response to "price fixer" being added to the list by an overreaching, innovation-suppressing government.
Lord Wakeham, a former Tory chief whip and noted political fixer, has suggested that the Convention's privacy provisions should apply only to public bodies.
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The Chelsea Football Club owner maintained that Mr Berezovsky had never owned a formal stake in his companies, and had simply been employed as a political fixer to help him make the necessary connections to build up his business empire.
On the other side of the deal are buyers scouring for fixer-uppers to flip into revenue streams or first-timers looking for a turnkey toehold into the mobile space.
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For Mr Abramovich, the case was simply about greed - a well paid political fixer who got well above his station and who treated the Chelsea Football Club owner like a cash cow.
The Rosens bought a fixer-upper house on a five-acre lot, and moved in later that fall with their newborn son.
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