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- ballooning
- big wheel
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- explosion
- ferry
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- five-percenter
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- friend at court
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- gush
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- influence
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- influencer
- ingroup
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- latent epilepsy
- lobby
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- lords of creation
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- man of influence
- menstrual epilepsy
- onset
- open sesame
- ordain
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- perviousness
- portico
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- Rasputin
- roll logs
- rotatoria
- serial epilepsy
- sinister influence
- soft-soap
- special-interest group
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- Svengali
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- the Establishment
- turn
- very important person
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- way
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- wire-puller