Sentences with phrase «junket in»

Dragon has already established a number of junket partnerships with an eye on this opportunity and plans to launch its first junket in the beginning of January 2018.

We'll hold the junket in Detroit.

With the Bonn UN Climate Junket in its last days, the big leaders are coming in, and the ambit claims are coming out.

In February 2013, Brown appointee and CPUC president, Michael Peevey, sought out a senior executive of Southern California Edison (SCE) while the two men were on a junket in Poland.

I met the staff briefly around 2004, when I was attending a THQ press junket in Cabo San Lucas and us Californian game nerds got a chance to hang out with the Mexican press a bit.

Kojima has been on a press junket in the US for the past few days, so presumably we can expect plenty of new MGS 5 news sometime over the next few days as coverage emerges from under embargo (and out of dictaphones).

The media tablet marketplace got a little bit more crowded today when Amazon unveiled its Kindle Fire tablet at a press junket in New York City.

At the press junket in Miami, I asked VW of America officials why they were introducing a convertible at this time of year, and they said it really didn't matter when they rolled out the New Beetle ragtop, since the entire first year's production of about 30,000 vehicles already has been spoken for.

With Sony Pictures» Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle now playing in theaters, I was recently asked to cover the press junket in Hawaii for Collider.

«A lot of my friends love it and when we did a press junket in America everyone was bowled over and people were quite nervous about meeting Jessie.

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.

I had the opportunity to sit down with Russell — whose body of work makes him a pitch perfect fit for this character — at the film's press junket in West Hollywood.

Movie Mikes recently had the opportunity to attend a press junket in NYC for the upcoming Broadway show «Fences» based on the August Wilson play.

Earlier this week at the film's press junket in New York City, CBR went straight to the source — Deadpool 2 screenwriters and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick — to get the scoop on all of the above and more, including definitive clarification on the identity of the mutant played by Shioli Kutsuna, insight on Cable's powers and the original plans for Jack Kesy's Black Tom Cassidy.

Earlier today, Marvel Studios kicked off the global promotional tour for Doctor Strange with their Asia press junket in Hong Kong.

He was in bed with the Otuoke chieftain who embarked on a dollar junket in the southwest to buy the Yourbas, including some of its royal fathers and its Pentecostal deviants.

But while Democrats are in the majority, several were absent, including Senate President Malcolm Smith of Queens, on a junket in China, Kevin Parker of Brooklyn, who was on trial for allegedly attacking a Post photographer, and lame - duck Pedro Espada of The Bronx.

Capital requested schedule records that would have offered details on Cuomo's Hollywood junket in late January as well as another event in Albany last September.

Larry D.: «I was on a junket in Vegas, and I called up this special number and I got a hot word about the Jets.

So, Nestle also has a long history of hosting press junkets in which journalists are invited on swanky trips and plied with Nestle propaganda.

On behalf of GATW, he covered Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, the Toronto International Film Festival and Comic - Con, along with junkets in London, Toronto and other parts of the world.

Well, Martin indignantly explained that since he is working to make the sort of trips that he so craves for himself way too expensive for the hoi polloi to afford, then it was O. K. for Martin, with his expectations of an income twice that of the average Brit family, to enjoy his little carbon - spew junkets in good conscience.

Not exact matches

Running illegal gambling operations, including recruiting people for foreign gaming junkets, was their main business, according to previously unreported court documents in China obtained by Bloomberg Markets as well as interviews with family members and former business partners.

About 90 percent of North Korea's trade is with China, and Chinese junket operators are well equipped to use the formal banking sector and informal financial networks created by the Chinese traders and small businessmen who've crisscrossed the world for 1,000 years, says Andrew Klebanow, a senior partner at Global Market Advisors LLC in Las Vegas.

On Tuesday, casino billionaire Steve Wynn revealed that a junket operator in his Macau casinos — essentially a subcontractor — brought in clients whose winnings cost the casino more than $ 10 million in April, an astonishing swing for a business that can generate profit of as much as $ 50 million.

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The Justice Department concluded these junkets «amounted to vacations» and were intended to incite the recipients to influence tenders in J&J's favour.

And while Mr. Gorman may be Australian by birth, he is hardly Crocodile Dundee, and definitely not the type to go in for the jocular atmosphere of steakhouse dinners and junkets favored by stockbrokers.

In 2013, Mother Jones reported that Rossotrudnichestvo was under investigation by the FBI for using junkets to recruit American assets for Russian intelligence.

Whether it's multi-million dollar advertising campaigns in the United States, gold - plated junkets to foreign energy markets, or muzzling opposition from -LSB-...]

Following his summit last weekend with the stalemated premiers of Alberta and BC (Insight Apr. 14), Justin Trudeau resumed his international junket, with stops in France and England.

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.

A secondary method would be to swamp the Rep. and Senate District Offices while Congress is not in session although many of these guys will be on junkets.

As the GOP «ers did in the Sea of Galilee on a recent Israel junket, will the hurricane disrupt the drunken, religious themed skinny dipping in Tampa Bay?

Whether or not they paid for this junket, if they are thinking of footing the bill for others in the future, even despots with unlimited slush funds might ask whether the NCC today has any influence worth buying.

We were visiting the resort on a brief media junket that was a public relations event for the Taos School of Cooking, which was intent on publicizing and selling their 2004 calendar, «Chefs of Taos: Cooking in the Raw.»

Perhaps because Jim looks as honest as American Gothic, the McMillens have received only one shady offer for their son — an illegal junket to this year's Super Bowl in New Orleans.

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.

«In 1969, on my last big trip for the AAU,» Toomey said, «two weight men, Jon Cole and George Frenn, took film all during our little junket.

USSF members enjoyed their junkets to World Cups, voting in committees, mixing with the great ones of the sport.

The Wolverines are visiting France to close out the month, coach Jim Harbaugh announced in February, a junket focused on Paris and Normandy.

I had the honor to be invited to a press junket this weekend in Tampa.

They must have been aware that there's been a history of having these blogger junkets blow up in a very ugly way (especially this year, I think there's some social unrest behind a lot of the rage about these junkets), and, given that they've been boycotted for over 30 years, they must have known that, you know, activists use the Internet.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told me during a CapTon interview yesterday that he has also encouraged members of his conference who are facing primary challenges to consider skipping what's essentially a three - day junket that features a lot of partying with some politics squeezed in.

I understand that Tom Reed did one heck of a cannonball while skinny dipping in the Holy Land (traveled their on a junket at tax payer expense).

At that time, the economy was sliding into recession; the Boko Haram insurgent group was carrying out deadly attacks, contrary to Buhari's promise of defeating the sect within a few months of coming into power, and the President was junketing around the world amidst the crises in the country.

Travis Allen, R - Huntington Beach, who has dodged questions from the California press about his eight - day junket to China, is speaking with state - owned media in the People's Republic of China about his trip.

Within days of condemning the «communist regime in Vietnam» for its human rights abuses, an Orange County Republican lawmaker packed his bags for an eight - day junket to China, which is engaging in «the most severe attack on government critics since the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square.»

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.

He urged the President to pay more attention to the ailing economy of the country instead of junketing around the world, wasting $ 1 million per foreign trip, saying; «President Buhari has travelled to 24 countries in eight months, and will be spending 16 out of the 29 days in February outside the country, with over $ 500,000 being spent on estacode while the Presidential Air Fleet, which includes fueling of the planes and allowances for crew members is said to be in the range of $ 500,000.