Sentences with phrase «sweetheart deals»

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.

The goal is to prevent hospitals from offering sweetheart deals to doctors who will refer patients to their facilities.

Motorola launched a special Valentine's Day sale called «Sweetheart Deals,» bundling free Moto Mods with the purchase of select Moto smartphones on various carriers.

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.

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.

We have no sweetheart deals with any particular insurer.

We have no sweetheart deals with insurance companies.

In private, big energy firms were offered sweetheart deals to acquiesce to the climate bill, including expanded offshore drilling for oil giants like BP and taxpayer subsidies for coal and nuclear interests that outstripped those for clean energy.

Even with Trump looking to do sweetheart deals with the oil giant, Exxon can't escape the realities of an outdated internal combustion engine.

That's basically where fees for sweetheart deals like for Wojick and Watts lands on the financial report.

«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.

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.

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Warren wrote, «Navient should be focused on and investing in improving its abysmal student loan servicing operations, not lobbying Congress and the administration in search of sweetheart deals.»

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.

They aren't making sweetheart deals with Amazon's competitors.

In the 1990s the «Big and Nasty» chains like Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Books - a-Million — with their sweetheart deals with the Big 6 Publishers — put 1000s of indie bookstores out of business.

The Host Committee includes some of the area's corporate giants, including the CEO of USBank, a St. Paul - based megabank that avoided paying $ 10 million in taxes to the state last year because of sweetheart deals and tax cuts.

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.

Gonski 2.0 removes these sweetheart deals; Labor, which put them in there in the first place, would keep them.

Subject charter schools to the same procurement practices as District schools — so they can't make sweetheart deals with their own for - profit companies.

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.

Sweetheart Deals for the Home!

«We do not believe that there should be any sweetheart deals on safety, insurance rates, tolls and taxes for multinational companies to cut their own operating costs,» the UTA's John Tomassi said in prepared testimony.

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.

«It's time to close these corporate tax loopholes and pass publicly financed Fair Elections so that our elected officials don't allow CEO campaign contributors to get away with these sweetheart deals ever again.

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.

«When you're paying for those sweetheart deals, for those patronage positions, that's a tax, it's a corruption tax,» Curran says.

It's got whistle - blower protections, lobbying restrictions, bars to sweetheart deals, transparency, efficiency studies and much more.

«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.»

«Here's City Hall selling favors again — apparently $ 350,000 buys you sweetheart deals in the de Blasio administration.

The smaller parties have spotted a once - in - a-generation chance, if not to join formal coalitions then certainly to cut some sweetheart deals in return for helping a fragile coalition government get key legislation through.

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.

This package is a big step toward ending the «public corruption» tax — the extra money our citizens pay for sweetheart deals and even outright criminal behavior in our Legislature.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Cable, satellite and Internet protocol TV providers must decide whether they want keep these customers with «sweetheart deals,» he said.

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.

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.

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.

, 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.

The premier made the pact with Alcan to disregard the deal the original contract and legislation and permit, indeed partnered with Alcan to give Alcan a sweetheart deal to make hundreds of million dollars making electricity for sale instead of expanding aluminum production as the deal called for.

«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.

Should the U.K. vote to leave, Kelly does not expect Europe to give it a sweetheart deal.