...iate; to coordinate (a combined operation); to take the lead 牵线 to manipulate (a puppet); to mediate; to pull strings; to control from behind the scene 牵线人 a controller ..
As it happens, one of the few foreign companies affected is American International Group, a huge insurer whose boss, Maurice Greenberg, knows how topullstrings in Washington.
Field-Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has continued topull the strings in Egypt, was named defence minister.