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He goes on to have a lucrative but somewhat stereotyped role in motion pictures.
One by one via a night-club semi racketeer, a monk, a ski instructor, the mayor of a small town, an epileptic doctor with a lucrative sideline in abortion and a gay hairdresser the scales fall and/or are stripped from her eyes leaving her sadder but wiser.
The subplot concerning Beachum's contemplation of the lucrative offer from the gigantic law firm, complete with romantic interest, is not so well done, but generally this is an entertaining film carried by the spell-binding interactions of the two leads.
The film is full of people you kind of know from other things, and I spent a much more lucrative time looking them up on Google than I did watching their performances.
This movie starts in the 1940's and showcases the beginning of both of these show business legends and implies that both were struggling and about to go under when, according to this film, both were booked at the same club and Lewis inserted himself into Martin's act and the audience thought they were so funny together that they became an act that sold out nightclubs and eventually segued into a lucrative movie career.
In no time flat, he was playing in clubs, had signed a lucrative recording contract with the Latin-flavored Fania Records, and had changed his name to the far more exotic-sounding Hector Lavoe.
A developer, illegitimate son, and heiress(with her patsy husband who obeys her every command)all wish to secure the dead woman's land and bay for there's quite possibly a very lucrative tourist future in the area.
Heroes are fabricated for the sole reason that they are needed to go on with the lucrative and politically essential war, on any side of the conflict.
Rick Carlson is perfectly happy and content being a lifeguard as opposed to being involved with more lucrative opportunities, that I shall not reveal here.
But the country’s relationship with China improved markedly, with Chinese firms winning a series of lucrative construction contracts that would secure Sri Lanka’s position as a key stop on China’s “maritime Silk Road” connecting Asia to Africa and the Middle East.
This trend toward greater regional integration will offer a unique opportunity to tap an entire highly lucrative market from a few beachheads.
People aren't fighting over scarce housing or lucrative jobs.
The PPP bandwagon has three essential components: an explosion in infrastructure finance (backed by pension and other large funds); the creation of “pipelines” of lucrative mega-PPP projects to exploit countries’ raw materials; and the dismantling of environmental and social safeguards.
Somehow, it seems, Berlusconi’s name never fails to pop up when lucrative business transactions with Libya are discussed.
Moreover, if salaries are low, how can university deans stop their faculty members from scouring the country to do lucrative consulting?
Furthermore, Global Witness has exposed secret transactions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in which lucrative mining assets were sold off to shell companies linked to a friend of President Joseph Kabila at prices well below market value.
The same week, a former student of mine who lost his lucrative financial-sector job explained that he had no savings because it was so expensive to date in New York!
This has provided further nourishment to the gaggle of gurus who have turned religion and pseudo-spirituality into a lucrative business in India.
But a more lucrative – and common – source of part-time employment in the Netherlands is the subcontracting of “white collar” services.
As a result, postcommunists prefer to place their offspring in lucrative commercial jobs where they can pile up foreign-currency fortunes.
(Even President Aliyev groomed his son for power by installing him as vice-president of SOCAR, the vastly lucrative state oil monopoly.)
Dissolving this lucrative conglomeration at a time when the economy has little else to offer multitudes of civil servants and workers – unemployment currently stands at almost 28% – will be difficult and unpopular.
Nevertheless, the fears, and especially the prospect of a new and lucrative market, set pharmaceutical firms scrambling to develop Ebola-related products, while health officials lamented that nothing had been done beforehand.
Uyghur membership in the Chinese Communist Party has declined, despite a nationwide increase in membership due to CCP placement of supporters in universities and lucrative jobs in the state and semi-private sectors.
They demanded tax cuts, and got them; they demanded a rollback of environmental protection, and got it; they demanded, and received, the right to attack unions; and they demanded lucrative government contracts, even for paramilitary operations, and got those, too.
When, beginning in the nineteenth century, book publishing became not only a lucrative business, but also made books increasingly affordable to many more households, the sources of learning in society exploded.
Trade often trumps human rights and governments, especially in Europe, are often loath to jeopardize lucrative contacts when governments that violate human rights retaliate at being criticized.
The media industry in Kenya is more lucrative than in most African countries, which has led some to assume that Kenya’s press is free.
But, nowadays, research increasingly is misdirected toward lucrative prizes, professional recognition, and financial gains – rewards that are suffocating the creativity and passion that scientific progress demands.
Kurdish politicians within the new parliament have good reason to protect these lucrative deals as debate begins over constitutional changes.
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