The rivalry may not hurt Offerdahl, brought into Traq as a hired gun last year.
Chesley maintains he was a mere hired gun, involved in the case only to lead the settlement negotiations.
As a character, he's a career criminal, hired gun and professional thief, a pulp-fiction prince of America's seedy underworld.
Mike Jones is the hired gun executing a new strategy that News Corporation expects will take MySpace back to the top.
But Quentin Hardy and I suspect an outsider, perhaps even a hired gun, who is being fed gossip from a high-level source.
Merrill brought in an out-of-state hired gun, an attorney, to debate me in front of public fund clients of Merrill considering investigating abuses.
In a separate case, star litigator Boies, who was the U.S. government's hired gun in its partial antitrust victory against Microsoft in 2000, has filed an antitrust suit against Qualcomm on behalf of chipmaker Broadcom.
The fashionable young Gunner became a hired gun, moving to Motherwell from Fratton Park, heading to Canberra City in Australia, to Fulham, Phoenix Inferno in the USA, Hearts and a final pit-stop at Partick Thistle in a career that ran from 1967 to 1984.
It is a very good thing that the man writing the US's National Intelligence Estimates and briefing the president on intelligence matters is not a hired gun for the Saudi and Chinese governments who believes that Jewish Americans have no right to participate in public debate about US foreign policy.
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His first public utterance as IBM chief hardened the hired-gun image.
The folks who work on RIMS II are good people trying to do good work, but the users of RIMS II are mostly sloppy hired-gun economists and regional analysts, and the results of the program are pretty bad.
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Managers 20, distributed by Affiliated Managers Group (nyse: AMG - news - people ), launched in 1998 but enlisted Oak in 2000 to be its subadviser, the hired-gun talent that would make the thing soar.
While there are certainly highly-skilled and in-demand professionals who are able to parlay their hired-gun status into big paydays or renaissance workers who are mashing up day jobs and dream jobs, those who benefit financially from the gig economy are in the minority.
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The money controlled by institutional investors is a key lifeline for these gun makers, who have chosen to hide behind their hired hands.
Beyond the camp, at each point of the compass, Nepalese Gurkhas hired by DynCorp maintained sentry positions in foxholes and in sandbagged machine-gun nests on the roofs of trucks.
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