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wheeler-dealers

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  • noun Plural form of wheeler-dealer.

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Examples

  • I can hardly contain my schadenfreude at the thought of some of these same progressive wheeler-dealers coming to the frightening conclusion (this time to them, not just us) that “holy crap, we took the mimic of the wrong Republican!”

    Rangel equates Obama with Cheney. | RedState 2010

  • Sadly in the Tea Party distortion of American history real causes of unemployment --- the sins of financial wheeler-dealers like Duer left unsupervised --- are covered up by rhetoric about government spending, and the government whose vital role Hamilton understood gets smeared.

    Paul A. London: Unemployment and the Deficit: The Disconnect Paul A. London 2011

  • Heartening news for those who feel Wall Street's wheeler-dealers have yet to be mocked with sufficient zeal for their part in bringing about the sub-prime crisis, the Great Recession and all the other chaos of the past three years.

    Without a return to growth, the western economies could end up as 'Japan lite' 2011

  • Just before last year's general election campaign, the would-be chancellor talked about giving the public a "people's bank bonus"; but while the City's wheeler-dealers are still getting their pay days, it looks like being a long time before the rest of us are going to be rewarded with a payout.

    Arabs demand new freedoms but the west offers old economic blueprint 2011

  • Sadly in the Tea Party distortion of American history real causes of unemployment --- the sins of financial wheeler-dealers like Duer left unsupervised --- are covered up by rhetoric about government spending, and the government whose vital role Hamilton understood gets smeared.

    Paul A. London: Unemployment and the Deficit: The Disconnect Paul A. London 2011

  • Just before last year's general election campaign, the would-be chancellor talked about giving the public a "people's bank bonus"; but while the City's wheeler-dealers are still getting their pay days, it looks like being a long time before the rest of us are going to be rewarded with a payout.

    Arabs demand new freedoms but the west offers old economic blueprint 2011

  • The ads would be a double-barreled assault on Mr. Romney's success as a businessman and on Republicans as the party of corporate wheeler-dealers and the uncaring rich.

    Romney and the Corporate Raider Critique 2012

  • Heartening news for those who feel Wall Street's wheeler-dealers have yet to be mocked with sufficient zeal for their part in bringing about the sub-prime crisis, the Great Recession and all the other chaos of the past three years.

    Without a return to growth, the western economies could end up as 'Japan lite' 2011

  • These debts were incurred, not to pay for public programs, but by private wheeler-dealers seeking nothing but their own profit.

    Ireland's electoral revolution (and one of my favorite ads) 2011

  • The aid money has mainly fattened the purses of networks of Afghan and international contractor/wheeler-dealers and their co-conspirators whose presence is felt everywhere.

    Afghans lack faith in Kabul conference 2010

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