The wheeler-dealers and quasi-wildcatters who pioneered the field have been replaced by engineers talking efficiency and managers describing manufacturing processes.

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Sadly, the wheeler and dealers of the industry are fully aware of this and therefore create ignorance quite deliberately in order to sell things that people would not buy if they were fully informed.

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But for others the internet and the dotcom revolution has not meant instant wealth but a rather painful lesson in the harsh world of financial wheeler dealers.

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Mr Corzine and Mr Forrester both pledge to fight cronyism though Mr Forrester has scored campaign points by sniping that some of the state Democratic Party's most notorious wheeler-dealers have necessarily been among Mr Corzine's allies since his move into politics.

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