Sentences with phrase «sweetheart deal»

This prevented elected officials from approving sweetheart deals with the government unions whose campaign contributions got them elected, all behind closed doors with minimal opportunities for public review.
And of what is being distributed, there are few enough sources that they feel free to pick and choose the best prospects without having to make sweetheart deals.
In exchange for sweetheart deals for their particular regions, these faux - Democrats allow progressive legislation passed in the Assembly to die in the Senate.
The complaint said Rose's campaign got sweetheart deals on services that included get - out - the vote operations, voter lists and the services of campaign workers.
Some of the President's family members who are getting sweetheart deals and making off like bandits, and it's created a great deal of resentment in Syria.
As Gerald Benjamin, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at SUNY New Paltz, points out in aJournal News op - ed; Forty - nine out of 63 New York State Senators received most of their campaign contributions from corporations or big money donors.Millions are wasted and misdirected each year because of sweetheart deals for the special interests.
B.C. taxpayers can't afford these sorts of sweetheart deals in a time of austerity, especially when the Minister of the Environment admitted that the fees paid by Nestle and oil and gas companies likely wouldn't even pay the government's bill for administration related to the legal changes.
Representative Greg Meeks of the 6th District implodes over sweetheart deal and politicos everywhere want to know who boss Crowley will choose as his successor.
The national chains are in bed enjoying sweetheart deals for deeply discounted bestsellers from major houses, whose intent of the super-discounts and making their famous authors available for book signings were clearly to out - price and upstage those nearby indies.
No more adding staff at a pace outstripping student enrollment; no more sweetheart deals on pensions or health insurance; no more whining about «large» class sizes of 26.
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Developers typically offer top chefs sweetheart deals on rent and other incentives, such as custom built kitchens.
Pryor, a three - year starter for the Buckeyes, announced on Tuesday that he is giving up his senior season while the NCAA investigates Ohio State players getting improper benefits, including tattos, cash and possible sweetheart deals on cars.
Cheap for Pruitt but everyone else outside the carbon poison industry are paying big time for that corrupt sweetheart deal!
«So how much did the Government offer Surrey to kill this off and is the same sweetheart deal on offer to every council?»
The state says it allowed Rangel in March 2013 to enter into a new sweetheart deal in which he could postpone paying six months of rent.
A June 2014 report from the state comptroller suggested Nassau's Industrial Development Authority skirts the law and grants sweetheart deals to the politically connected.
April 11, 2017 • Investigators in Washington seeking links between Americans and Russia's election - meddling are searching for evidence of loans or sweetheart deals used to gain access or control over targets.
In this case, the New Haven Board of Education is appointed by Mayor Toni Harp — who, thanks to an earlier sweetheart deal — happens to sit on the Achievement First Inc..
And by the end of 2012, Howey had negotiated sweetheart deals with major publishing houses to release print editions of Wool worldwide and had even optioned the film rights to Ridley Scott.
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«Governor Brown may talk a good game on climate, but he is making sweetheart deals behind closed doors with some of the planet's worst polluters,» said Liz Butler, vice president of organizing and strategic alliances at Friends of the Earth.
Even with Trump looking to do sweetheart deals with the oil giant, Exxon can't escape the realities of an outdated internal combustion engine.
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Some defense attorneys believe these are sweetheart deals intended to avoid discovery in a retrial.
But anticorruption fervor had helped fuel the occupation of Tahrir Square, and to some activists and ordinary Egyptians, this once unthinkable verdict signaled that the elites who had enriched themselves through sweetheart deals with the regime might no longer be above the law.
What is required under net neutrality is that these peering and traffic prioritization arrangements are available under equitable terms to everyone; ISPs can't rig sweetheart deals giving fat pipe access to services of their choosing, while charging the competition higher rates.
J.C. Penney had granted the original service providers a serious sweetheart deal: they went rent - free.
«We know that it'll only cost $ 2 per New Yorker, and that's a small price compared to the hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars that are handed out every year in sweetheart deals for CEO campaign contributors.»
Google's carrier project is hitting off Valentine's Day with a couple of sweetheart deals for those inclined to getting a new phone and new service this year.
It also looked increasingly to outsiders that even though no one involved from the library's side did anything illegal, or made any money under the table, that there was more than a whiff of sweetheart dealing in the way that the properties were going to be, or in the case of the Donnell Library actually were, disposed of.
They aren't making sweetheart deals with Amazon's competitors.
With commercial rents down as much as 50 percent in major markets nationwide, cash - strapped landlords are offering sweetheart deals on long - term leases to retailers and business owners savvy enough to take advantage.
No more adding staff at a pace that outstrips student enrollment; no more sweetheart deals on pensions or health insurance; no more whining about «large» class sizes of twenty - five.
Subject charter schools to the same procurement practices as District schools — so they can't make sweetheart deals with their own for - profit companies.
Those disparate pieces include File Keepers, an archival business records and information management company founded in 1974 after Rosenthal accepted a sweetheart deal to lease a vacant, 500,000 - square - foot building in downtown Los Angeles.
Cable, satellite and Internet protocol TV providers must decide whether they want keep these customers with «sweetheart deals,» he said.
The big question for Detroit now is, having cut a sweetheart deal with Trump, whether it should double down and press the administration to bring California and CARB into line.
The investments could be unrelated — or it could be that some of the push back from critics who worry that GE is getting a sweetheart deal from the state and city, is having an impact.
Under the agreement, which many describe as a sweetheart deal for the highly valued ride - sharing company, Uber drivers still aren't considered employees.
, for owning shares in tobacco companies while voting to do their bidding in Congress and for getting a «sweetheart deal» on biotech stock.
Franken also took on Representative Tom Price, Trump's nominee for the Department of Health and Human Services, for owning shares in tobacco companies while voting to do their bidding in Congress and for getting a «sweetheart deal» on biotech stock.
But since Stephen Harper had already caved in and signed a sweetheart deal with George Bush, that decision was moot.
They get special pricing and sweetheart deals, and they've beaten the market 7 - to - 1 and raised dividends as much as 600 % in the past decade.
«President Trump's comments are consistent with industry sources we have spoken to in the shipping industry, who often label Amazon's deal with the USPS as a sweetheart deal.
In exchange for a sweetheart deal, the company will bring tens of thousands of high - paying jobs and spend $ 5 billion in capital expenditures.
When royalty revenues weren't enough to cover the cost of public services the government defaulted to cutting services rather than cutting waste, including patronage appointments to 320 agencies, boards and commissions or sweetheart deals with their friends (the Holy Cross Hospital springs to mind).
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