Sentences with phrase «sweetheart deals for»

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.

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.

Sweetheart Deals for the Home!

«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.»

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.

Under the agreement, which many describe as a sweetheart deal for the highly valued ride - sharing company, Uber drivers still aren't considered employees.

Sen. Simcha Felder appears to have a sweetheart deal for his campaign headquarters from the same landlord who rents the elected official his state office.

Last year, the Mayor agreed to a new contract with the United Federation of Teachers — a sweetheart deal for the union that has repeatedly and negatively influenced education policy thereafter.

Now we're getting them, and now we know: The contract is a sweetheart deal for the United Federation of Teachers.

Jim B. needs to step up his game instead of crying over a sweetheart deal for Apple shareholders.

Not exact matches

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.

Multinational companies can expect the European Commission to press on with a crack down on sweetheart tax deals after handing Apple a breathtaking demand for 13 billion euros, officials and experts said on Wednesday.

The European Commission is taking legal action against Ireland and Luxembourg for allegedly giving sweetheart tax deals to companies like iPhone maker Apple and burger chain McDonalds that allowed them to shift profits from other EU nations.

The business press is having a hard time this week sorting out whether Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson is getting a sweetheart tax deal for joining the Trump administration.

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.

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.

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.

It's also still running its nationwide search for a second headquarters that has mostly entailed seeing which city governments are willing to debase themselves the most in the form of jaw - dropping sweetheart tax deals.

A pathway is emerging for President Donald Trump to rectify the sweetheart deal that Jeff Bezos's Amazon has with the United States Postal Service (USPS), Breitbart News has learned.

These churches do this because their leaders are in fact, themselves wealthy so they'll always pretend like issues such as «gay marriage» are vital issues for the church while ignoring issues like corporate outsourcing thanks to the sweetheart trade deals our corrupt officials pass with bi-partisan support.

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.

The ad calls Carl Paladino «a landlord and developer» who traded $ 452,000 worth of campaign contributions for sweetheart inside deals in the form of a $ 1.4 million Empire Zone tax break for which he created only one job.

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.

For example, in the early 1990s, Lloyd Williams, a political and business associate of Inez Dickens and her father dating back at least to the 1970s, and head of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce and its development arm the Greater Harlem Housing Development Corporation, presided over a disastrous sweetheart real - estate deal with the City that wound up costing the taxpayers almost $ 4 million.

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.

The rest of UK manufacturing would be battering on the door of the business department to be told its contents for fear they were missing out on a sweetheart deal.

sock puppet — do you mean the «sweetheart» deals that the OGS Commissioner (Who worked for Daddy Cuomo), said give below market rents and that he's a good landlord, who also pays taxes on his buildings?

Cheap for Pruitt but everyone else outside the carbon poison industry are paying big time for that corrupt sweetheart deal!

A major campaign donor secretly pleaded guilty to trying to bribe Mayor de Blasio to get a sweetheart lease deal for his Queens restaurant, court records unsealed Wednesday revealed.

A sweetheart deal, Dextro Auto gets to be in charge of supplying spare parts and after sales services for the cars at extra cost after the importation, in spite of the fact that Ghana has a popular spare parts hub at Abossey Okai.

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

But by 2007, that sweetheart deal had turned ashen, replicating Mimiko's umpteenth betrayal of former collaborators for personal gains.

Donohue also pointed out that it is outrageous that the budget includes a sweetheart deal to NBC to lure the Tonight show back to New York and a luxury suite for Cuomo administration use as part of the taxpayer financed renovation of the Buffalo Bills» stadium — all at the same time he leaves an essential hospital, like Downstate Medical Center at significant risk of closure and struggling localities without relief.

The hits kept coming Thursday for embattled EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt after the agency's top ethics lawyer said he was misled about Pruitt's sweetheart condo deal, a new report said...

«This left the town on the hook for an unknown financial disaster... this contract was a sweetheart deal and a giveaway to the Lizzas and a crime against the people of Oyster Bay,» Singas said.

The governor accuses the mayor of concocting a «sweetheart deal» for real - estate developers.

In one such scheme, Boyland Jr. said he would set up a sweetheart real estate deal worth millions of dollars in exchange for $ 250,000 paid through a fake consulting job, according to the New York Times.

«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.

Northwestern's TTO team gave him advice, guidance, access to resources, and a sweetheart deal — they arranged for him to do a postdoc in which he would spend half his time in the lab to continue his research and half his time at the university's incubator to bring his startup plans to fruition.

Gretta (Keira Knightley) and her long - time boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) are college sweethearts and songwriting partners who decamp for New York when he lands a deal with a major label.

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.

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

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.

As bad as things appear for us, unless it's a sweetheart deal no one else is getting and you're allergic to entrepreneurship, staying independent is still better than most alternatives.

From Wednesday to Friday, these professionals from around the globe wheel and deal, looking to strike that sweetheart deal we all live for.

Having to cope with demanding clients needing her attention and a sales assistant who isn't exactly reliable is more than enough for Shelby to deal with.But when her childhood sweetheart, Caleb Love, walks into her store, her world is thrown into turmoil.

From authors who only ask for a very limited level of editing or who have a sweetheart deal going.

If you were the person responsible for your dog's needs, the one that your sweetheart cherished most, the one who was always there, then you will need more time to deal with this loss.

How to boost rewards for Valentine's Day gifts — If you play your credit cards right, you can score points from your honey and for yourself by using a rewards card running a Valentine's Day promotion... (See Sweetheart deals)