Private banks like to employ teams of polite, well-groomed, desperately upperly-mobile sales lackeys to service clients.

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Mr Mugabe will henceforth find it harder to portray his opponents as merely arrogant whites and their black lackeys.

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Paterno, and the other Penn State lackeys, had to know that turning Sandusky in could prevent "JoePa" from breaking that record.

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In Lay's World, he was still the boss, ordering his attorneys around as if they were his subordinates or even his lackeys.

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The Republicans are determined to make hay out of the Democrats' perceived intransigence on drilling, while the Democrats are keen to paint the Republicans as the lackeys of greedy oil barons.

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Still, we keep hearing that scientists who challenge claims that our planet is on fire fueled by fossil energy are lackeys of a heavily-funded disinformation campaign underwritten by Big Oil, Big Coal, and other Big Spenders.

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It seems we keep hearing that scientists who challenge claims that our planet is on fire fueled by fossil energy are lackeys of a heavily funded disinformation campaign underwritten by Big Oil, Big Coal, and other Big Spenders.

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