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• n  an agent that operates some apparatus or machine
• n  a person who handles things manually

• Dulles' tenure helped shape the CIA into the spy agency of contemporary legend: covert manipulator, state within a state, overthrower of unfriendly governments.
• According to the film, he's the master manipulator who sprang Dubya from jail after a rowdy Yale prank, "took care of" a woman his son didn't want to marry and "pulled strings" to .
• Half Irish and all gall, he is a sucker for other people's promises and a happily shameless manipulator of his own.

• operator

News & Articles

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• Charlotte man sentenced in deaths of wife, stepson
  A man convicted of killing his estranged wife and fatally beating her 11-year-old son with a baseball bat, then fleeing with the woman's car to North Carolina, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Monday.    Prosecutors called Curtis Lopez a career criminal and an unrepentant master manipulator motivated by pure financial greed, and a judge described his crimes as ...
  June 11, 2013 - WSOC-TV Charlotte
• Man sentenced for Germantown murders
  ROCKVILLE — A man convicted of killing his estranged wife and fatally beating her 11-year-old son with a baseball bat, then fleeing with the woman’s car to North Carolina, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Monday. Prosecutors called Curtis Lopez a career criminal and an unrepentant master manipulator motivated [...]
  June 11, 2013 - The Daily Record
• 'Mad Men': Is Bob Benson Gay? Probably Not
  By Tim Molloy NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - (Spoiler warning: Don't read this if you haven't seen Sunday's "Mad Men," entitled "Favors") Bob Benson might be gay - or just a shrewd manipulator of 1960s homophobia. The crucial moment in Sunday's "Mad Men" was Sally Draper's terrible discovery of her father having an affair with his neighbor - but the episode also slipped in a tantalizing new clue about ...
  June 10, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Charles Grassley in ABC News (blog)
  Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, said, "As expected, the administration has again failed to identify China as a currency manipulator. China recently allowed a modest crawling peg of its currency exchange rates,...
• Richard Shelby in Forbes
  Shelby said the legislation was needed because despite the evidence, "Treasury has regrettably declined to label China a currency manipulator."
• Chen Deming in Washington Post
  If some congressmen insist on labeling China as a currency manipulator and slap punitive tariffs on Chinese products, then the [Chinese] government will find it impossible not to react,Chen said in an interview with The Washington Post....