• Social democrats are used to thinking of the state as the fixer of problems, not as the problem itself.

    ECONOMIST: Remodelling Scandinavia

  • Given that the fixer needs to pay off the players as well, it should be apparent that generating a profit is not going to be easy.

    FORBES: Sports gambing and spot fixing

  • An iron law of politics holds that at times of political unravelling the fixer becomes the scapegoat and the planter of stories turns into the story itself.

    ECONOMIST: White House tensions

  • This is the sort of challenge that the political fixer in Mr Persson clearly relishes.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Makers are not the salvation for our world economies, but the problem-solving that comes out of the DIY, Fixer, Maker movements is more in tune with how companies grow than cutting jobs and closing stores.

    FORBES: Best Buy CEO Stares At Opportunity Promises Bold Action

  • He has a good line to the Russians, but also keeps closely in touch with Richard Holbrooke, the Americans' star Balkan fixer and ambassador-designate to the United Nations.

    ECONOMIST: Carl Bildt, a good Balkan Swede

  • Mr Clark's probable replacement as head of a revamped Cabinet Office was thought to be Peter Mandelson, the prime minister's fixer, who has been notably unenthusiastic about the freedom of information bill.

    ECONOMIST: Freedom of information

  • By the way, the single best performance of a fraudster ever was done in this Gatsby by Amitabh Bachchan, as Meyer Wolfsheim, fixer of the 1919 World Series, bond fraud expert, and clear eyed seer into Wall Street.

    FORBES: Ben Stein: The Great Gatsby In 3-D, The Third Dimension Is Money

  • He has now created a leaner, more aggressive, and emotionally much thinner piece of work, and the presence of Ray Winstone, in the role of a secretive fixer, serves only to confuse, rather than to enrich, the complexity of the setup.

    NEWYORKER: Edge of Darkness

  • He bought the building as a family home and fixer-upper in 1992, when the TriBeca neighborhood was still a no-mans-land.

    FORBES: 75 Murray Street and Polaroid

  • My fixer distracted the staff while I hurried through other buildings on the premises.

    BBC: In Pictures

  • The Rosens bought a fixer-upper house on a five-acre lot, and moved in later that fall with their newborn son.

    FORBES: The Entrepreneur

  • But having fallen out last year with Luis Miquilena, his former political fixer, the president is finding that he no longer exerts unchallenged sway over these institutions.

    ECONOMIST: California comes to Caracas

  • Uxbal (Javier Bardem) is a fixer on the streets of Barcelona, finding work on the sly for immigrants and keeping the deal sweet with payoffs to the police.

    NEWYORKER: Biutiful

  • Decrease in activity coupled with fierce competition from investors targeting distressed inventory means the possibility of picking up a decent fixer-upper at a discounted price from the bank has greatly narrowed.

    FORBES: 4 Essential Things You Need To Know About The 2013 Spring Home Buying Season

  • On the other side of the deal are buyers scouring for fixer-uppers to flip into revenue streams or first-timers looking for a turnkey toehold into the mobile space.

    FORBES: Mark Cuban-Backed Apptopia Auctions Off $1 Million iPhone App

  • The house is still a fixer, with smelly carpeting that Gaffen can't wait to pull out, and there are some termites to contend with.

    NPR: Homebuyer Looks For Deals In Short Sales

  • "It is obvious that an allegation that a professional cricketer is a match fixer goes to the core attributes of his personality and, if true entirely destroys his reputation for integrity, " he said in awarding the damages.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • For Mr Abramovich, the case was simply about greed - a well paid political fixer who got well above his station and who treated the Chelsea Football Club owner like a cash cow.

    BBC: Uncovered: Trial of the oligarchs

  • Mr Mukherjee, the government's wiliest political fixer, thus deserves a little patience.

    ECONOMIST: India's budget

  • Ubisoft intends to release a massive fixer-patch in the coming days.

    FORBES: Assassins Creed 3: Behind the Naval Gameplay (VIDEO)

  • In Baghdad, Othman told me that a new passport would cost him six hundred dollars, paid to a fixer with connections at the passport offices.

    NEWYORKER: Betrayed

  • Unsustained by anything resembling directorial control, Luke Wilson holds the screen for almost two hours in a front-and-center turn as Jack Harris, a Houston-based business fixer who, in the mid-nineties, had an Internet version of greatness thrust upon him.

    NEWYORKER: Middle Men

  • When the scramble finally happened, hackers had fixer files available for satellite thieves within 15 minutes.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It is alleged four friendly games were prearranged for the benefit of convicted Singaporean match-fixer Wilson Perumal and his Football 4U organization.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Indeed, the choice of France's next president may even be decided by the flurry over the videotaped confessions of a dead political fixer.

    ECONOMIST: France

  • Lord Wakeham, a former Tory chief whip and noted political fixer, has suggested that the Convention's privacy provisions should apply only to public bodies.

    ECONOMIST: Privacy

  • According to the FIFA report, the results of South Africa's matches with Thailand, Bulgaria, Colombia and Guatemala were prearranged for the benefit of convicted Singaporean match-fixer Wilson Perumal and his Football 4U organization.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The Chelsea Football Club owner maintained that Mr Berezovsky had never owned a formal stake in his companies, and had simply been employed as a political fixer to help him make the necessary connections to build up his business empire.

    BBC: Uncovered: Trial of the oligarchs

  • He became her confidant, and she became his fixer, his disciple, and, when the Nazis took over Austria, his savior.

    NEWYORKER: Princess Marie

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