You don't have to be the trigger puller to be an aide or abettor.

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That is to reckon without Mr Lafontaine's gifts as string-puller and master of ceremonies.

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Abed, a rickshaw puller, sold his rickshaw and his home to pay for his son's medical treatment in Dhaka.

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Although formally out of office, he remains responsible for his party's funding, and is an important string-puller in the ruling coalition.

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The glittering burial hoard from Mycenae gold cups, jewellery, bronze swords with gold-plated hilts and hundreds of ornaments is still a crowd-puller at the Athens archaeological museum.

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He was also a fine puller and an efficient cutter, but it was the manner in which he got his runs that stood out, specifically because it didn't stand out.

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"Dan's very much a trigger puller, but the stuff he can do in a moment's notice isn't always going to work, " says board member Mark Jennings, a founder of the venture firm Generation Partners.

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