Dora is engaged to a pompous young bigwig of local fascist society, to the evident delight of her ambitious mother. |
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My father's a Wall Street bigwig, meaning that he pulls in tons of revenue from cheating off business associates, competitors, and clients. |
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A larky contest with a local bigwig who wants her removed from the street ends with neighbourliness all round. |
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In the late 1990s the itch to merge seemed to infect most of the bigwig chief executives. |
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Arvind, a college teacher catches Rajkumar, son of a political bigwig, in the examination hall while the latter is copying. |
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He is a bigwig and has many contacts, as I discovered when I tried to get a lawyer later to contest his dismissal. |
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Even the fact that the heroine is an ex-actor and the Washington bigwig she befriends a thwarted thesp gives the whole affair a cosy patina of showbusiness. |
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Local bigwig Jim Rennie, a used-car salesman and councilman, looks to use the dome to seize control of the town. |
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Robert Downey Jr. plays the son, a bigwig Chicago attorney who proudly defends wealthy white-collar criminals. |
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That's a bigwig Republican talking, a man who ran for statewide office in New York and possibly will again. |
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The last bigwig of the gas world to take the road to Ashkhabad, in November 2007, was Arnaud Breuillac, the manager for Central Asia in the French group Total. |
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The production, which opens in September and is expected to wing its way to the West End soon after, is produced by Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood bigwig. |
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Several former rainmakers and star analysts have set up broker-dealers. There is a big vacuum to fill, argues John Costas, a former UBS bigwig who has just co-founded PrinceRidge, a boutique focused on debt markets. |
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At a recent Harvard colloquium, a bigwig from one of the large consultancies told his audience of star professors that the only person he valued at the school was the admissions officer. |
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At that time I was the chief sidekick on Danny Baker's Radio 1 show and some BBC bigwig had decided that it would be a good idea if we did one show from America, where the World Cup was in full swing. |
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Ash, Bigwig, Celandine, Dandelion, Fiver, Hazel, Hawkbit, Nightshade, Pimpernel and Toadflax. |
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