His hand may have been stengthened by the fact that he is a dyed-in-the-wool auditor.
Licensing has been paying the rent up in Redmond, and Ballmer is a dyed-in-the-wool licensing guy.
Now the Keidanren, the association of big, dyed-in-the-wool manufacturers, is shifting its position.
So even a dyed-in-the-wool Zynga bear might be forced to consider that the stock may have finally hit rock bottom.
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Well, you know, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Sam Cooke fan and listened to him a lot coming up, and he was an early influence.
The biggest myth of all is that conservative Christians are dyed-in-the-wool Republicans.
Many Europeans and Americans wonder whether Mr Netanyahu is himself a dyed-in-the-wool rejectionist, or is simply in thrall to the ultra-nationalists in his coalition.
An undervalued stock excites Don Yacktman, a dyed-in-the-wool value man one of the top investors since the financial crisis who manages several eponymous mutual funds.
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It would be nice if Friedman is forced to pay some sort of price for finally coming out of the closet as a dyed-in-the-wool Israel hater.
Ironically, what seems to be missing from the God Species more than anything else is the spirit of urgency, intensity and personal outrage of old-school, dyed-in-the-wool environmentalism.
Jacques Chirac was a dyed-in-the-wool Gaullist, and La Francafrique was in its essence a Gaullist enterprise, but even Chirac paid lip-service to the notion that times had changed.
Now the Conservatives can credibly allege that a UKIP vote will merely divide the Euroskeptics and let in the Labor Party (a majority of whose leaders are dyed-in-the-wool Europhiles).
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Having been a dyed-in-the-wool liberal-arts undergrad, I enrolled in Wharton half-expecting cutthroat-shark-pinheads for classmates, but instead I made friendships that have lasted more than 25 years and good business contacts too.
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In the end, the Democrats have a good chance of prevailing on election day: it is hard to see dyed-in-the-wool Democrats opting for Mr Bush once alone in the voting booth.
But early indications are that the Ryan pick has failed to move any of that small, elusive but critical group of swing voters, while dyed-in-the-wool partisans have just hardened their positions.
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This would have brought the added satisfaction to many dyed-in-the-wool conservatives, possibly including Mr Khamenei, of weakening the position of Mr Rafsanjani, who has mounted a rearguard struggle to contain the president's influence.
Goldman, a dyed-in-the-wool trading firm, is grabbing such opportunities with glee, taking business from once ubiquitous but now reeling rivals, such as Citigroup and UBS. It also helps that its arch-rival, Morgan Stanley, has pulled in its horns.
Besides my wife and me we had two friends over, including a dyed in the wool Peter Luger enthusiast from pre-hipster Brooklyn, and we all tasted my own grass fed T-bone first.
The biggest reward, if the interpretive documentary reaches anything beyond art-house audiences already dyed in their political wool, will go to Hugo Chavez.
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