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“I can’t do my f— job if you are within a hundred-mile radius,” she scolds him, as he adjusts to his role simply as spouse rather than mover and shaker.

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But before Stein was a mover and shaker, his passion for music helped change the contours of the industry.

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China’s tech world is watching closely what will happen to Mr. Bao, who knows or has worked with nearly every mover and shaker in the industry.

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Before the invasion, Feb. 24 hadn’t been much of a mover and shaker as a date in world history.

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But it also represented a chance to be a mover and shaker - as he himself said about the spy films he watched as a teenager, "one spy could decide the fate of thousands of people".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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