Sentences with phrase «gravy train started»

Sheldon Silver's $ 3 million - plus gravy train started rolling when a cancer doctor poached a client for him from another assemblyman who considered the now - tainted speaker a friend, according to evidence introduced Monday at Silver's corruption trial.
Sheldon Silver's $ 3 million - plus gravy train started rolling when a cancer doctor poached a client for him from another assemblyman who considered the now - tainted speaker a friend, according to evidence...

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Players started to get paid earlier this year as part of a settlement on the matter, and most gravy trains of this magnitude don't sit still forever.
That gravy train of nurturing, gradual learning, and unconditional love has to end some time and when they start solid foods, that's where I draw the line!
Starting today, Cuomo is turning the debate on its head — forcing the special interests to defend their gravy train, rather than leaving himself to argue for nonexistent «cuts.»
They have long appreciated - ever since the early 1990s, when the global warming bandwagon first started to roll behind the gravy train of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)- that such short - term climate fluctuations are chiefly of natural origin.»
They have long appreciated - ever since the early 1990s, when the global warming bandwagon first started to roll behind the gravy train of the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)- that such short - term climate fluctuations are chiefly of natural origin.
It appears that under your system, current ratios for carbon emissions will be locked in, but penalties will be assessed based on population — so China gets hit HARD for increasing emissions from a low level while having a large population, and the West gets free elevated emissions locked in for the rest of the fossil age, and Qatar gets a gravy train by starting high and having a tiny population.
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