• And Estrada has just named Jose Syjuco, the right-hand man of Imelda's youngest brother, Benjamin, president of giant oil company Petron Corp.

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  • The two were identified as Commander Saif Ullah, described by police as the right-hand man of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, and Maulvi Umar, the well-known spokesman for the group.

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  • Once in the league he rose quickly, working in the 1980s with Commissioner Pete Rozelle, the NFL's visionary founding father, and later as the right-hand man of Rozelle's successor, Paul Tagliabue.

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  • This can scarcely come as a surprise since, as the right-hand man of Yasser Arafat for decades, he is not exactly a new leader "not compromised by terror" - whose election Mr. Bush made, nearly three years ago, a precondition for U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state.

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  • Prince Abdullah, aged 36 and the king's right-hand man in the army, has never concerned himself with politics.

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  • He was the pope's right-hand man when the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger headed the department that enforces doctrinal orthodoxy.

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  • He was the speaker of parliament and Khomeini's right-hand man in the 1980s, president of Iran from 1989 to 1997 and is now chairman of the powerful Expediency Council, which resolves disputes between the clerical establishment and parliament.

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  • Yet how can The Economist endorse Mr Greenspan's right-hand man, when we have long criticised the chairman for failing to curb the stockmarket bubble in the late 1990s, and later for propping up the economy by inflating a housing bubble?

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  • It is likely that Mr Miliband's main rival will be Ed Balls, the former schools secretary, who was Mr Brown's right-hand man and enforcer during his ten years at the Treasury.

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  • Mr Fastow came forward for arrest in October, following the guilty plea of his former right-hand man Michael Kopper.

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  • The word "secretary" conjures up images of a bygone era, of pearls and sweater sets, sensible heels and knee-length skirts, and the right mixture of efficiency and self-effacement to fade into the background while acting as a powerful man's right hand.

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  • For the last two years, he has been Paulson's right-hand man, providing analysis on a mortgage crisis that has consumed the world's economies.

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  • Lineen also ruled out becoming Robinson's right-hand man should the Englishman get the job.

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  • Yousef escaped at the time, but agents caught his right-hand man, Abdul Hakim Murad, who told them a chilling tale.

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  • His passport has been confiscated and he is banned from meeting Claude Couty, his former right-hand man at the company.

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  • Yousef escaped at the time, but agents caught his right-hand man, Abdul Hakim Murad, who told them about plots to hijack U.S. jets.

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  • Jenkins, who arrives in the Wales job along with Llanelli Scarlets right-hand man Nigel Davies as his attack coach, has been searching for some time for a defence coach.

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  • "Both Danny and Kirsten agreed that whoever had the best chance of winning would be put forward and that is what happened, " said Dennis Mumble, Jordaan's right-hand man at the FTF.

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  • Jerry Richardson, who was her right-hand man during the thuggish days when she surrounded herself with a gang known as the Mandela United Football Club, and is currently serving a life sentence for Stompie's murder, said this week that she ordered that the boy be killed, but did not herself stab him.

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  • One of the four, Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor, was accused of passing Saif al-Islam coded documents, allegedly written by his former right-hand man, during the team's visit.

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  • After attaching such an important tag to this encounter, it appeared pivotal to the future of Grant - who had new right-hand man Wally Downes at his side - that West Ham emerged victorious.

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  • It is being claimed that neither the prime minister's right hand man and spinner -in-chief, Alastair Campbell, or his wife Fiona Millar, who works as Mrs Blair's aide, have fallen out with Mrs Blair over her relationship with either Carole Caplin or Mr Foster.

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  • Igor Shuvalov, the first deputy prime minister and Mr Putin's right-hand man, was in London (where his son studies) when Georgia erupted.

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  • Cruise is on top form here, and there is nice work from Irish actor Colin Farrell as his right-hand man, and Samantha Morton as the android-like "pre-cog" who predicts future murders and might just hold the key to Anderton's innocence.

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  • The blue-faced man lowered the piece of paper in his right hand onto the left-hand stack, transferred it instantly to the right-hand stack, then lifted it once again into the air.

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  • According to Merkel's right-hand man, Ulrich Wilhelm, Merkel used the meetings to promote the research and high-tech skills in Bavaria as on par with Silicon Valley, in addition to showcasing other potential markets in Germany.

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  • When Boeing's sales fell behind those at Airbus as the market picked up, he got rid of Toby Bright, his right-hand man for 20 years, and replaced him with Scott Carson.

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  • He sat next to his right-hand man at Goldman, Gary Cohn, and in the same section as the short-selling hedge fund manager Jim Chanos, Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond and Nasdaq head Bob Greifeld.

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  • The run-off pitted Vladimir Meciar, a ham-fisted ex-prime minister whose authoritarian style set Slovakia back half a decade in the 1990s, against Ivan Gasparovic, who was then Mr Meciar's right-hand man but later fell out with him.

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