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They're near the visitor's on-deck circle, prime foul ball territory.
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Mr Mahajan, who also held the parliamentary affairs portfolio, is seen as one of the prime minister's inner circle.
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"You have to avoid getting into the magic circle which surrounds any prime minister, " he said.
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Inveigling his way into prime minister Indira Gandhi's inner circle, Ambani found the power to control yarn prices.
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But when prime brokers turn off the funding tap, this virtuous circle may turn vicious.
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This may explain why the stand-in Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, seemed to be trying to square a circle when he said today in Prague that his technocratic government would take his demand for a footnote to the October summit only if they had a promise of no more funny business from the president.
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His foreign circle ranges from Peter Mandelson, confidant of Tony Blair, the British centre-left prime minister, to Joachim Bitterlich, former adviser on Europe to the centre-right Helmut Kohl.
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