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His most loyal courtiers - beloved princess Rebekah who so understood and shared his psychotic ambition, Les 'La Familia' Murdoch's sly consigliera, trusted wise-guys Couslon and Wallis and the sleazy crew of Scotland Yard bagmen, political knee cappers and seedy wire-tappers - either faced arrest by the resistance or had made their excuses and left.
Julian Kossoff: Rupert Murdoch, News Corp and the War of the Worlds Julian Kossoff 2011
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On the other hand, the reputation of A Song of Ice and Fire is based solely on its forum - but there gather all the wise-guys and the nutcraks that mean anything in the genre fandom on the internet community.
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On the other hand, the reputation of A Song of Ice and Fire is based solely on its forum - but there gather all the wise-guys and the nutcraks that mean anything in the genre fandom on the internet community.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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So how did the phenomonem of concerted economic blindness hit all the wise-guys at the same time?
Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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How bout a nonwhimsical study, namely: How can ALL the financial wise-guys glom onto a concerted egregious greed, a la subprime loans, to point of world wide depression.
Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Last year, banks and a major insurance company failed and were rescued by the federal government after Wall Street wise-guys risked untold hundreds of billions in crazy schemes.
Leo W. Gerard: Obama: Follow the Philosophical Footsteps of Abraham 2009
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But who exactly would come out on top if the wise-guys squared off against each other?
Public Enemy #1 – Top Ten Gangster Films! | Obsessed With Film 2009
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Didn't he hunt down, and jail a bunch of wise-guys as Prosecutor: or, maybe they were just his cronies opposition?
Rudy: Kerik Was A Good Commish, Whatever His "Problems" 2009
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Other financial wizards and wise-guys are amateurs compared to the magician that made this money disappear.
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To equate the jest of two Canadian wise-guys with the edict of the Almighty -- O wicked daughter of Eve!
Ellis Weiner: A Letter to John McCain from the Office of God 2008
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