Sentences with phrase «on junkets»

Once you're on the payroll, all notions of objectivity as a writer — already questionable on junkets — are thrown out the window.

Writers on the Internet are not bound by the rules of old media institutions; they can guiltlessly go on junkets.

It's not a first for Stone, as prolific series author Leslie Meier has sent her on junkets to Manhattan and England on occasion.

Yes, the partisan and gridlocked NYS Board of Elections ruled that spending campaign cash on junkets is permissible as long as the campaign funds only pay a portion (50 %, 75 %, 99 %?)

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.

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.

Nestle's never going to invite me and people like me on a junket because a. we would refuse and b. we wouldn't make it easy for them, and we wouldn't say nice things at the end.

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).

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.

I never went on a junket.»

It seemed clear to me that Mr. Cronenberg was not generally accustomed to talking of his earlier work on the junket circuit.

OAJ = On A Junket = a travel story magazine written by travelers.

This method of extracting petroleum leaves an unholy mess, even as conveyed by a libertarian writer like Ronald Bailey visiting the Alberta oil - sands mines on a junket paid for by oil companies.

I can not wait to see the new data that they have gathered on this junket.

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.

Please read it so I have a chance on going on a junket again someday...

Not exact matches

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.

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?

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.»

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.

About a week after the funeral Abdul - Jabbar flew with Sandifer to Russia on a publicity junket for Adidas.

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

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.

I spent the first two days of the fest with Coca - Cola and the remaining 2 days as an official member of the Essence Press Junket on behalf of Verizon Wireless.

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

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.

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.

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.»

You may recall that more than a decade ago, felonious former Gov. John G. Rowland came to grief and went off to prison the first time for exchanging favors for charter jet flights and going with a group on a Las Vegas junket, some of whose members had a reported rendezvous with Las Vegas prostitutes.

Banks, who has not been charged with any crime, took trips and junkets with two wealthy businessmen, Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who served on Mayor Bill de Blasio's Inauguration Committee.

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.

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.

The press will soon be full of stories of junketing politicians and rich business men with Tory connections, sunning themselves on their yachts.

He planned the junket last week, but pumped the brakes Tuesday — after confrontations on the...

De Blasio's has regularly traveled out of the city on political junkets, often to much criticism, especially for a recent trip to Hamburg, Germany to protest outside the G20 summit of world leaders, where de Blasio said he was offering an alternative representation of American values to that of President Donald Trump.

Makeup artist Tracey Levy, who globe - trotted with actress Mila Kunis on her Friends With Benefits press junket, told us how she helped the star fake eight hours of rest.

I travel at least a few days each month on behalf of a global press junket, film festival, special event, or domestic press tour.

Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Ridley Scott, Michael Fassbender at the press junket and photocall of The Counselor held at The Dorchester in London on October 5, 2013

A lot of things have changed since your first adventures with dating the ladies when JFK, Nixon or Reagan were in the white House — flying cars, weekend junkets to hotel casinos on the moon, world peace.

Things got testy during the «Rush Hour» panel at CBS's Television Critics Association press junket on Tuesday.

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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.

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.

Hugh Jackman is currently in theaters playing Marvel fan favorite Wolverine for a record - setting ninth and final time in the R - rated Logan, and during his recent press junket to promote the film, the Van Helsing star talked about taking his son trick - or - treating on Halloween while dressed up as has signature comic book character.

Based on the Los Angeles press junket for Death at a Funeral, I'm going to say it's not an act.

The 42 - year - old actor stepped out at a press junket for the upcoming series during the SCAD aTVfest on Friday (January 2) in Atlanta, Ga..

And with the new Deadpool movie coming out in 2016, Reynolds was asked to compare and contrast the costumes of his two heroes while on a press junket for his current film Self / Less.

Kumail is wondering where the beds go when there are press junkets and looking around to see where that king - sized bed vanishes away to as he sits down on the plush cream sofa.

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.