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Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged four reputed members of a Latino street gang with acting as hired guns in a dispute between two rival Armenian organized crime figures.

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All the while, musicians — some bandmates, others hired guns — filed in and out of four different studios, as he searched for perfection.

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It's not clear how much of the pro-Depp clamor was seeded by his hired guns, but in the end, they were pushing on an open door.

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You might save yourself from a life filled with small-talk with hired guns who were trained to speak to you in short sentences.

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ProPublica traced Zolgensma’s journey from lab to market, from the supporters there at the beginning to the hired guns brought in at the end to construct a rationale for its unprecedented price.

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