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  • There has to be an element of realism in dealin with large corporate companies.

    Dear Mr. Dell « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Backman's "wheelin' dealin'" lifestyle lands him with a prison sentence, which is unexpectedly truncated at an eleventh hour Presidential pardon for a CIA plan.

    The Broker digitaldoc 2006

  • Backman's "wheelin' dealin'" lifestyle lands him with a prison sentence, which is unexpectedly truncated at an eleventh hour Presidential pardon for a CIA plan.

    Archive 2006-04-01 smg58 2006

  • I'd lots o 'dealin's with him afore ever I seed him, and I allers found him straight as a shingle.

    Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

  • The next I see of him is a year later, in McKittrick, where he's runnin 'a real estate office an' dealin 'in oil lands.

    The Long Chance 1918

  • I've long suspected thet somebody livin 'right heah in the valley has been drivin' off cattle an 'dealin' with rustlers.

    To the Last Man Zane Grey 1905

  • Then she stays away herself an 'swills liquor an' has all kinds o 'dealin's an' takes no care o 'her own children.

    The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

  • Presenting the top three fist thumpin ', soul stirrin', limousine ridin ', jet flyin', kiss stealin ', wheelin' dealin ', son of a gun songs that go "woo"!

    Junk - Latest Happenings 2009

  • "I'm thinkin '," he added, "he's been taen awa 'frae the evil to come -- frae seein' the terrible consequences o 'sic a saft way o' dealin 'wi' eternal trowth and wi 'perishin' men -- taen awa 'like Eli, whan he brak his neck at the ill news.

    Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

  • We'd better straighten up and act like grownups, and I mean soon, or somethin 'bad is gonna happen, and its not going to discriminate between Red and Blue when it comes to dealin' out the big hurt.

    DNC blasts Kyl in new web video 2009

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