As director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Clinton, Lew helped to negotiate the deal that balanced the federal budget -- and led to a budget surplus.

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This followed an increasing UDA rejection, particularly within that brigade, of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which its political allies in the Ulster Democratic Party helped to negotiate during cross-party talks.

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Kim Ghattas : He speaks Polish, he's been ambassador to South Korea, helped negotiate an end to the Balkans conflict and shuttled from Washington to Pyong Yang for three years, working on a denuclearisation deal with North Korea.

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Getting the dome to that level would require "hundreds of millions of dollars" in upgrades, according to Ganis, who helped negotiate the deal.

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Helped negotiate merger with NFL to create Super Bowl.

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The chancellor, Angela Merkel, a physicist who in the past helped negotiate the Kyoto Protocol, is a strong campaigner against climate change and wants Germany to set an example.

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The U.S. attorney said Chilowitz sent the confidential list and data from a Morgan Stanley computer to his personal AOL account and had communications from his Morgan Stanley e-mail to that unnamed "co-conspirator, " who worked at an unidentified consulting company that helped negotiate prime broker rates for hedge funds.

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