Given any phenomenal color, we can describe conditions of perceptual access and take this description to be a referencefixerfor a physical color.
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For this reason, exchangees often left stealthily at night, after making prior arrangements with fixers, boatmen and border guards who demanded much money.
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From the modern perspective, providing such advice is the province of men of dubious trades such as trouble fixers, rather than of legitimate lawyers.
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However, of greater importance was the fact that he was a supreme manipulator, negotiator, andfixerof deals behind the scenes.
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Nevertheless, there were operators like him in black neighborhoods across the country, who combined journalistic, commercial, church, or educational work with the role of employment agent,fixer, and racial go-between.
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Given any phenomenal spatial property, we can - as with phenomenal colors - describe conditions of perceptual access and take this description to be a referencefixerfor a physical property.
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Complaint to the firm's ratefixerresulted only in the usual autocratic refusal even to discues the basis.
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More unkindly, it could be described as a fix by political fixers.
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The factory employs 678 men and there are 5 rate fixers engaged on the general work of fixing rates for the whole factory.
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Are we going to have price fixers all round the country?
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But that "fixer" gives him not only the money but protection all the way along the line.
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The mayor will have to be a facilitator, afixer, who forges ahead by building partnerships.
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It is an unwritten law that the shop steward never praises the ratefixer, for if he does, the employer will quickly remove him.
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What has arisen, inevitably, since crime is now such big business, is the agent, the entrepreneur, the middleman, the "fixer".
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A small crook to-day goes to a "fixer" and is financed for his operation.
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