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He has wheedled a better deal out of foreign concessionaires who export Liberia's iron ore and rubber, increasing the revenues to his treasury by some $5,000,000 a year.

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He does this so successfully that, far from becoming a tasty morsel for its neigh bors, Nepal has wheedled all manner of goodies from both� not to mention the U.S. and Russia.

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At Lima's San Marcos University,* Rector Luis Alberto S�nchez has wheedled more financial support from the government, has straightened out the administration of university-owned real estate to produce more revenues.

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Decent, humane places for the terminally ill could have been provided decades ago with some of the millions the Cancer Foundation has wheedled out of a considerable number of desperate relatives of these martyrs.

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Of course she has wheedled him into making a new will, and the lion's share will go to herself.

From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes