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A mid-level manager, the kind of job often considered emblematic of a middle-class career, stands between those two roles, answering to a CEO but also holding delegated authority over who to promote, fire, praise or abuse.

Part of the danger is that Republicans, either actively spreading the lies or answering to a base that believes them, may be unwilling to provide aid for hurricane victims going forward.

Clinton spent the last month of her campaign on the defense, answering to the contents of the leaked communications.

Suddenly, the person answering to "prime minister" is a different bloke from earlier in the month.

Demand for change at the top of the Russian military has been pent up since the invasion’s earliest days, when stories circulated about Russian soldiers going to war without proper food and equipment and losing their lives while answering to feckless military leaders.