The word
"junket" refers to a social gathering or event, often an extravagant one, where food or drinks are served. It can also sometimes refer to trips or outings sponsored by an organization.
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Seated at
press junket for his 2010 film The Last Airbender, director M. Night Shyamalan eyes the journalist who asks the following question:
It was on a recent press
junket for his upcoming film Cosmopolis.
The pols are required to disclose their assets, investments, outside income from book deals or other ventures, and travel
on junkets in annual reports.
To help promote the film, Fox recently held a big press
junket in London, and while there I got to interview screenwriter / producer Simon Kinberg.
Screen Rant's complete set
of junket interviews for Deadpool 2 will be released later this week so stay tuned.
Speaking at the Black Panther press
junket with LRM Online, Duke discussed his reprisal of the role.
Sophie Okonedo poses at The 70th Annual Tony Awards Meet The Nominees Press
Junket at The Diamond Horseshoe at the Paramount Hotel on May 4, 2016 in New York City.
A Chinese crypto firm has caught the ire of many
junket operators after announcing that its digital coin may be used for transactions in Macau casinos.
The nine -
day junket includes elected officials from only the City of Vancouver — none from the nearly two dozen surrounding municipalities that account for three - quarters of Metro Vancouver's population and at least half its jobs.
It was my last travel
junket as a magazine writer.
Buhari's foreign trips bleeding Nigeria's economy; won't solve Nigeria's problems — Fayose Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said that President Muhammadu Buhari foreign trips abroad are counter - productive noting that he should stay at home and govern the country instead of
junketing from one country to the other.
There is greater clarity on what gifts county employees can accept, from food or drink worth less than $ 15 to limiting time spent on individual
travel junkets out of town.
I'm sure they have their own logo designers, compliance and diversity departments, people responsible for
organizing junkets for big brass, yadd yadda.
Visitors to the site can learn about the Congressional perks such as automatic pay hikes, gold - plated pensions, privately
funded junkets and others; listen to the radio hour online or download the transcript; learn about the rise of lobbying in Washington; or read about he battle over the future of the Internet.
Perhaps it's how he has learned to survive a three - day
film junket, but Sheen takes an unexpected interest in me, before and after our interview.
Many of the wealthiest corporations in the world are members of ALEC, which uses its vast resources to shower state politicians across the country with expensive gifts, high - priced dinners at fancy restaurants, and
vacation junkets at exotic resorts.
Indeed, though his post-green jacket whirlwind
media junket / victory tour has kept him on the road for all but about a week since April 8, Watson said he owed it to the fans in New Orleans to try and defend his Zurich Classic title this week.
Just how many tens of thousands of people take
weekend junkets to nuke plants rather than casinos?
Meanwhile, as Howey
junkets around on an 11 - city tour, those readers long - silo» ed in the depths of his yarn already are on to the second book, The Shift Omnibus (Shifts 1 - 3, the Silo Saga).
Using examples from
Wild Junket and Travels of Adam, she tells to her popular event just exactly how and why statistics in a media pack is important pitching to a travel PR, that immediately met some discord from budding travel bloggers.
A 13 - minute «making of» featurette («Out of Time: Crime Scene») is the typical B - reel footage mixed with on -
set junket soundbites.
They don't want to be seen on the radar screen,» said Tony Tong, founder of Pacific Financial Services, a consulting firm that advises Asian casinos and
junket companies.
I
used junket rennet & so.far no results, can I heat it up again & add lemon juice?
I hadn't make cheese with
Junket rennet tablets, I know you can make soft cheeses with them but maybe I am wrong.
But not really, because the pols are smart enough to do their
little junket right after the election knowing that it will be totally off the screen when the next Nov election comes around.
Another Silver benefactor, Caesars, paid a $ 25,000 fine for discounting the speaker's Las
Vegas junket.
MacArthur - paid
congressional junkets: 5 trips to 2 destinations, Chicago, Illinois and Istanbul, Turkey.
, a compilation of amateur B - roll interspersed with
junket soundbites from writer - director Noah Baumbach.
About Photo # 4075881: Tina Fey happily poses alongside her husband Jeff Richmond while attending the 2018 Tony Awards: Meet The Nominees Press
Junket held on Wednesday (May 2) in New... Read More Here
Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, has called for an end to special
interest junkets, saying that such trips aren't in the best interests of taxpayers.
Watch Harrison Ford surprise Alden Ehrenreich during his interview with @ETNow at the Solo: A Star Wars
Story junket.
AAAS CEO Rush Holt emphasized, however, that scientific and technical conferences are professional working events — «not
fancy junkets.»
Mostly it seems I'm just at the Four Seasons,» she says, laughing during yet another visit to the Beverly Hills hotel so often used for
movie junkets.
A
comic junket behind - the - scenes of the world's most exclusive power - broker retreat.
With the Bonn UN
Climate Junket in its last days, the big leaders are coming in, and the ambit claims are coming out.
Stephen Harper's
China junket has finally yielded a much - anticipated reciprocal currency deal, which will allow the Canadian dollar and the Chinese renminbi (also known as the yuan or «redback») to be traded directly.
While some members of Congress
enjoy junkets to Paris or the Caribbean, Representatives Frank Wolf (R - Va.)
Somehow I used to work full - time, have a photography gig almost every weekend, blog on a consistent basis, travel several times a year for
blogging junkets and conferences, and manage to build a few websites.
My call for Secretary of State for Scotland, Jim Murphy, to spend less time manufacturing political spats with the SNP, by going on
overseas junkets, and more time fighting for the people of East Renfrewshire seems, somehow, to have been cut from the story.
There will always be the discussion on whether
sponsored junkets are ethical by various members of the travel industry, but that's not what this post is about.
Director Ryan Coogler attends the Marvel Studios» BLACK PANTHER
Global Junket Press Conference on January 30, 2018 at Montage Beverly Hills in Beverly Hills, California.
We will round - up the joint press
junket video interview that Domhnall and co-star Michael Fassbender did last week in New York for «Frank».
Speaking to Screen Rant during the Avengers: Infinity
War junket, Ruffalo said the first meeting between The Hulk and Thanos will be a pivotal moment for the movie and its followup, as well as a turning point for Bruce Banner.
It's Avengers week in the UK, as most of the cast members descended on London for a huge press
junket followed by the European premiere.