Cleveland, who often acts as a trouble-shooter for Wolfowitz, conceded that she can be demanding.

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But the well-travelled senator has long been the US trouble-shooter of choice in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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To turn around Britain, still in the red, trouble-shooter Oakes Ames, ex-Corning controller, among other things, is on the spot.

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The death from lung disease of Sergio Motta, his communications minister, close friend and chief trouble-shooter, was both a personal and political blow.

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