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Hewing tightly to a 260-page script known to employees as the I.B.B., or Infamous Black Book, he fired more than half the firm's 16,000 employees and brought it out of bankruptcy in 18 months.
He Wielded Ax in Bankruptcies Stephen Miller 2011
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Hewing to strict Republican ideology would not serve his re-election ambitions or prospects in Florida.
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Hewing ax in sculptor's hands at first penetration cries out the timbre of the moment silences the standing crowd.
Pinus Timbre 2009
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Hewing to the myth, they tend to surround themselves with courtiers who echo their brilliant pronouncements.
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Hewing ax in sculptor's hands at first penetration cries out the timbre of the moment silences the standing crowd.
Pinus Timbre J.N. Bower 2009
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The anthology includes a comprehensive study of the characteristics of the female voice in Hebrew poetry and its subversive use of legends and motifs such as the doll, the witch and the sea (Lilly Rattok: “Hewing Like Water”).
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Hewing to Mr. Bush's policies might be smart strategy, for now.
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Hewing to its recent strategy of making "big bets" on ideas to change social norms, Robert Wood Johnson is investing $15 million over five years -- one of the bigger grants the institution has handed out to a single entity.
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Hewing to her newfound reticence, Ms. Platt, who was wearing wearing fitted gray slacks, a blue button-up shirt, and an oversized silk scarf over her left shoulder, declined to chat with Daily Transom.
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Hewing to the George W. Bush dictum of "catapulting the propaganda" by endlessly repeating the same claim (the formula used so successfully by Joseph Goebbels), Tenet manages to tell "60 Minutes" five times in five consecutive sentences: "We don't torture people."
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