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- noun Plural form of
wheeler-dealer .
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Examples
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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!”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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