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While Brizard showed himself to be an opportunist bureaucrat, ready and willing to violate his contract and trust with the city of Rochester, and come to Chicago to serve as Rahm's hatchet-man, it's Emanuel and his autocratic control of the schools that's the real problem here.
Mike Klonsky: Chicago Schools CEO Choice Shows Problem With Mayoral Control Mike Klonsky 2011
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His companion, Chan Chi, had been a hatchet-man of note, in the old fighting days of the San Franciseo tongs.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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While Brizard showed himself to be an opportunist bureaucrat, ready and willing to violate his contract and trust with the city of Rochester, and come to Chicago to serve as Rahm's hatchet-man, it's Emanuel and his autocratic control of the schools that's the real problem here.
Mike Klonsky: Chicago Schools CEO Choice Shows Problem With Mayoral Control Mike Klonsky 2011
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While Brizard showed himself to be an opportunist bureaucrat, ready and willing to violate his contract and trust with the city of Rochester, and come to Chicago to serve as Rahm's hatchet-man, it's Emanuel and his autocratic control of the schools that's the real problem here.
Mike Klonsky: Chicago Schools CEO Choice Shows Problem With Mayoral Control Mike Klonsky 2011
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While Brizard showed himself to be an opportunist bureaucrat, ready and willing to violate his contract and trust with the city of Rochester, and come to Chicago to serve as Rahm's hatchet-man, it's Emanuel and his autocratic control of the schools that's the real problem here.
Mike Klonsky: Chicago Schools CEO Choice Shows Problem With Mayoral Control Mike Klonsky 2011
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I suspect the great long rat was jealous - and not only where Kralta was concerned, for he reverted to Caprice again, with a warmth which I thought quite unbecoming in a Treasury hatchet-man, the lecherous old goat.
Watershed 2010
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Watmore's into efficiencyIan Watmore, the former FA chief executive, has found new employment as the government's £142,500-a-year hatchet-man.
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He's always been a partisan, low-blow hatchet-man and his temper is almost as scary as McCain's!
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Rahm Emanuel has a hard-nose reputation, but there is nothing to suggest that he is a hatchet-man or the Democratic version of Tom Delay.
Emanuel Spokesperson Denies He's Accepted Chief Of Staff ... And Other Transition Notes 2009
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Taking no credit away from Rudman for his effective hatchet-man role, it is only fair to point out that it was Clinton who chose to cave in to the Pentagon.
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