| The book was to show how corporations and small-time bureaucrats conspire to sell out the people they purport to represent. |
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| Gina is your softer-featured Calvin, a small-time stylist who's just trying to make it in a world full of headaches. |
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| And what can small-time stations and local radio networks learn from their examples? |
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| The industry sweepstakes are pegged with four major players at the top, two medium-scale ones and a few small-time operators. |
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| Back in the day, Great Britain used to make and unmake small-time countries like Greece with one hand tied behind its back. |
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| For sheer want of manpower, violators go untraced and consequently a summons is never served for small-time traffic violations. |
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| The boys are suitably impressed, and when Sanjay asks them to work for him, turning their small-time racket into a bigger operation, they agree. |
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| After an uninspiring university life he worked as a small-time suburban solicitor who lived with his mother until he was thirty-two. |
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| It is a cynical look at small-time academia, and it was really completely beneath the station of someone like Qian to have written it. |
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| A clutch of kings, small-time rulers and chieftains invaded your home, dazzling garments and heavy jewellery in tow. |
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| But Pitt's six-year reign as a small-time godfather in south Manchester came to an end last year when he was jailed for life for murder. |
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| First came a rumor about Kerry, then a small-time blogger wrote about it, and his posting was read by journalists. |
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| Ten years later, Rikidozan was killed by a small-time gangster, with a tanto, in a bar. |
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| Ten years later, he was killed by a small-time gangster, with a tanto, in a bar. |
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| At the same time he paints a sad picture of the dreamland inhabited by his drunks, druggies and small-time punks. |
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| Last August, a small-time classic rock cover band performed at a bar called 69 Taps in Medina, outside Cleveland. |
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| In that case, and not only due to our efforts, Dobbs lost his job on CNN and was moved over to small-time radio. |
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| Ken Diamondstone introduced himself as a small-time developer from Brooklyn. |
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| Shame and hypocrisy are not ideal ways to deal with philanderers and small-time mashers. |
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| How the small-time actors feel about the gulf that separates them from megastars who make megabucks is not discussed. |
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| In turn, the milonga mixed with a dance that was performed in the streets by small-time crooks or 'compadritos' and the tango was born. |
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| Though he is a small-time criminal he boasts of big time blags and heavy criminal acquaintances. |
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| The studios may look like a little old small-time operation out in London's boonies, but I have to tell you the people are amazing! |
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| The others were forced into prostitution by pimps, small-time opportunists, and organized rings. |
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| But while property sharks may be kicking up their heels, small-time Plateau landowners and their tenants are bearing the brunt. |
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| The crooks range from small-time gangsters to big-time drug traffickers and international terrorists. |
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| A small-time crook threatens to blow up a New York landmark unless his demands for money are met. |
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| Thus small-time con man Moss gets mixed up with real villains and, predictably, blackly comic scrapes ensue. |
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| A simple fraud statute seemed like a good way to swat down small-time sharks and keep the field open for themselves. |
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| But he was never the small-time lawyer, with only a desk and a shingle, that some made him out to be. |
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| No one questioned what a small-time dealer would be doing with rockets. |
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| The jury at Preston Crown Court had been told how small-time drug dealer Mr Barnshaw had been beaten and doused in petrol and set alight after being kidnapped. |
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| In the movie, he's a small-time interviewer from a small-time station. |
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| Action game similar to GTA, the title allows us to embody a small-time hoodlum attempting to find a place in the family. |
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| He says that supporting local farmers could make small-time farming a viable occupation again. |
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| It is simply the best portrait of small-time showbiz hustlers ever made. |
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| He has been transformed from a grasping, selfish, small-time operator into a decent fellow who now plays a game of ludo with the rejuvenated elders. |
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| The practice is certainly not confined to housewives buying more sugar to fill up their pantry, nor to small-time smugglers holding contraband merchandise in mountain-caves. |
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| I see that as safer than if every small-time vinedresser or winegrower decides for himself and ends up on a steep slope right in a cloud of the plant protection agent he is spraying. |
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| She passed her baccalaureat and worked in a series of small-time jobs with the sole ambition of developing her song writing, owing nothing to anyone. |
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| What it boils down to is that paying off government debt is a way of transferring an ever increasing proportion of the salaries of workers and small-time producers to the rich who already have the capital. |
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| Others were backed by small-time mobsters. |
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| These tyrants were too small-time to rouse Americans to action and yet simultaneously too annoying or brutal to be ignored by a civilized superpower. |
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| Each night four contestants test their Olympic knowledge, with the winner taking home a bronze medal and small-time booty like a travel package or digital camera. |
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| By 1950 stations in many parts of the country were telecasting late-night fare, though mostly on a small-time, local basis. |
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| It is an oversimplification of drug use in Canada and targets street-level users and small-time traffickers. |
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| In his world of small-time hustlers, grouchy thugs and laconic crimefighters, there's always somebody with a new angle to work or a new beef to settle. |
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| The current movie is about a family named Baker, of which the paterfamilias is a small-time college football coach, and the mother is a homemaker. |
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| The economics of small-time pig keeping were simple and profitable. |
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| Félix tries to disguise his gradual transformation into a small-time racketeer, happily yet barely scratching out a living. |
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| Jimmy is an ex-con and small-time wise guy running a grocery business. |
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| He described her as a dominatrix who led her boyfriend and small-time criminal Rudy Guede to kill Kercher. |
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| The society girl is kidnapped by small-time hoodlums who are in turn bushwhacked by a bigger, meaner gang, a family affair led by Ma Grissom and her sons. |
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| Prosecuting the small-time operators in the U.S. isn't likely to rise to the top of the docket for state and federal law enforcers with limited budgets. |
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| Conservatives attacking Baldwin for his latest fit of anger are being small-time and shortsighted. |
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| The idea of a small-time literary agent is new and intriguing, and the possibility of working together is always a big draw. |
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| A SADISTIC small-time drug dealer subjected a teenage girl to a terrifying torture ordeal over a PS50 cannabis debt. |
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| Around half-a-dozen small-time cargo service providers in Ruwi are reportedly planning to close down their operations. |
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| Some of the early work on medicinal uses for marijuana was done in Jamaica in the 1970s and 1980s. In practice, most small-time ganja users are not arrested or prosecuted. |
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| It is often the case in these debates that we take up the cudgels against small-time dictators and neglect to address the human rights situation in major states that are of strategic and economic importance to us. |
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| What emerged amidst red-light district bars, Turkish sofas and Serbian weddings was a lively image of a whole district, with its small-time crooks, its hussies and its local big shots. |
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| It is a piece of staging that exactly catches the lewd tattiness of small-time cabaret and makes total narrative sense in that it explains why Adelaide is so determined to escape into marriage. |
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| The show follows Lawrence Jameson, a regular Rico Suave, and Freddy Benson, a small-time swindler who tugs at ladies' heart. |
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| Craig is her small-time dealer so he, Sharon and James have a clear picture of her drug patterns. |
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| Stiller and his pals recruit small-time crook Eddie Murphy and failed financial whiz-kid Matthew Broderick to plot their revenge. |
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| By his gift of magniloquence, this small-time Cicero strives to lend a veneer of respectability to the cut-throat connivings of his cohorts. |
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| The insanely harsh sentence given to small-time marijuana dealer Weldon Angelos is simply an extreme manifestation of a policy that long ago lost all connection with reality. |
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| Mae, the redhead who used to dance, is now married to small-time hash slinger Quig. |
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| Yet ours was a common story, small-time miscreants, refusniks of the minor variety, furtive delinquents slipping off the reservation, but only to the party store next door. |
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| Nesbitt is to star in a comedy drama for ITV called Big Dippers which centres on a couple of small-time criminals forever on the look-out for a quick money making scam. |
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