I do feel qualified to offer a personal view of some disconcerting aspects of how politicians and big business conspire to run the show. |
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I predict this is where you will get the lapdog of big business interfering. |
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Hunting is big business around here, with big-game hunters from all over the world visiting the many lodges and ranches in the area. |
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The enemy within is still there, but today it is not communist sleepers that are the concern but the corrosive influence of big business. |
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An old truism about the perverse ways of big business surfaced again last week in the pages of the Financial Times. |
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Let the councillors side with local people rather than the interests of big business. |
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If New Labour prefers to side with big business, maybe it's time for a genuine socialist alternative? |
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By their silence, both parties also conveyed to big business that, if elected, they would not oppose further restructuring. |
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This was also at the time when the twenty or so publishing houses were being umbrellaed by big business. |
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Instead both are big business, they work for big business and they make a motza. |
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The public service pay conflict marks a further step in the trade unions' transformation into organs of government and big business. |
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The inexplicable mulishness of big business was the only thing that held back widespread adoption of solar power. |
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Americans may tend to be overweight and underactive, but gyms are still big business. |
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Or will this whole thing blow over in a months and won't be remembered until the next multimillion dollar big business scandal? |
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And he also has plans to clean up big business by introducing a register of ethical and unethical businesses. |
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The net effect is that hunting bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas has now become big business. |
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At the Democratic national convention last week, big business put on its biggest party at a political event. |
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It could be a sobering wake-up call for someone so young and so unversed in the often treacherous ways of big business and high society. |
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Modern clothes are unwearable and the fashion industry has been disfigured by big business and nudity, says a legendary designer. |
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Last week, the upper house of the German parliament gave final approval to a series of tax reforms largely benefiting big business. |
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Today bullfighting is big business in Spain with the top matadors earning comparable salaries to the nation's top soccer stars and rock idols. |
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However, the most common rumour making the rounds was that big business interests wanted the land which the mall occupied. |
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Such a development inevitably comes up against the restraints of the profit system and meets with the opposition of big business. |
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The cosy relationship between old political strongmen and big business is dead. |
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In a position to shun the cash bribes of big business, he's now impervious to their threats. |
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And then there are the high rollers, representing chambers of commerce, big business, the healthcare, banking, and insurance industries. |
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At the same time, big business is seen as subverting the democratic process through its financial support of favored candidates. |
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Claims by big business and their political hirelings that the current levels of public and social services are unsustainable are lies. |
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The end of the Cold War has also seen the end of acceptance of trade unions by big business as the palatable alternative to Communism. |
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Cities spent decades dangling tax breaks and other financial sweeteners to attract big business. |
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He will never shed his image as a mere cypher of his father's wealthy friends and the interests of big business. |
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Ironically, big business is aware that climate change could be a real threat to profit margins. |
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This book also does a tremendous job of exposing the corruption and hypocrisy of big business. |
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Whatever his motives, North's crusade has made him the idiot savant of big business. |
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But facelifts and plastic surgery for pets are commonplace in the United States, where the pampering of pooches has become big business. |
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It's easy to condemn the cold-heartedness of big business, the callousness of large corporations. |
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And the taxation system favours big business while coming down on the small businessman. |
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Here, the incestuous relationship between high public office and big business is so obvious that it discredits official politics. |
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In a world of large-scale commercialism and big business, one age-old industry is witnessing a reverse trend. |
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The EU is destined to become what big business have always wanted it to be, just a common market. |
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They're a big business, but in terms of taxation and other types of treatment they receive concessional status as if they're charity. |
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It lay in the drive to further hand the fate of the planet and the world's poor over to big business. |
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It is true that at macro-level, the huge industrial plants, big business and financial houses play a big role in overall economic considerations. |
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No big business has interrupted the creative process, and in turn our partners lie hungry. |
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It would replace democracy with plutocracy, letting the wealthy and big business make laws in their own interests. |
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Most people in high level government positions today are intimately connected with big business. |
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The possibility of a five-fold increase in the projected cost came after big business insisted it move to counter public opposition. |
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This is a government whose domestic agenda is driven by free market economics and the desires of big business. |
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In fact, making people look and sound presentable is big business these days. |
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A major percentage of turkey hunters today hunt with decoys, and it's big business. |
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No less solid is Landry's record as a defender of the interests of big business. |
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Our political system, whoever is in power, is just puppetry by big business. |
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It's nothing more than a gravy train for big business to make huge amounts of money from the public purse! |
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Further education is now big business, and the College turns over 34m a year. |
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All of these are political decisions to put the profits of big business above the lives of millions of ordinary people. |
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Tony Blair has had no such confrontation, largely because his government accedes to almost every demand from big business and its janissaries. |
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Providing workers to do the dirtiest, riskiest jobs has become a big business. |
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In regions where trout are indigenous, the sport of fly-fishing is big business as a sporting activity and a tourist attraction. |
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He suggests that they may have believed, somewhat naively, that big business was whiter than white. |
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To find a social base for its reactionary agenda, big business is invariably forced to cultivate political reaction and cultural backwardness. |
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Are wars of aggression, wars for the conquest of colonies, then, just big business? |
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The monarchy remained in place, while big business and agrarians retained much influence. |
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By the early 1900s, sheep were big business in Montana with 4.2 million of the woollies grazing the immense open ranges of the Big Sky Country. |
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You thus argue that reducing corporate income taxes benefits big business but not the working classes. |
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The government was striving, in alliance with big business, to increase British competitiveness. |
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The 2005 budget also contains a temporary tax amnesties and an emphasis on the collection of arrears from powerful big business cartels. |
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Unfavorable governments in favor of big business therefore remain in power at the cost of a representative government. |
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In some parts of the country, where children's parties are big business, youngsters can leave with lavish gifts. |
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Democracy might be a flawed process but it was better than handing over control to faceless big business who are not answerable to the voters. |
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But there's nothing like partisanship to rev up the faithful, so the president and friends are framing Republicans as tools of big business. |
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His supporters say it is misguided to describe him as an archconservative in thrall to big business. |
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The cattle stations of Australia's far north were big business and there was no longer a place for sentiment and romance. |
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They seem to be able to find money to waste on rorts and subsidising big business but yet we still have waiting lists in hospitals. |
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Piracy, especially optical disc piracy, is big business in the Asia-Pacific. |
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Gambling has always been a big business and as more states adopt lotteries and permit casino gambling it gets even bigger every year. |
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This government has quite astoundingly placed itself in the camp of big business. |
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Running a loyalty card program is big business, and often incurs heavy administrative costs. |
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As in the United States, gambling in Canada is hugely lucrative big business. |
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The government plans to maintain its control long enough to restore its profitability then sell it off to big business. |
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The play is to be perceived as a satire on big business, which these piddling rogues try to emulate and, in their puny way, supposedly mirror. |
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Online betting is big business and it is now a very simple job to splash a bit of cash on a flutter. |
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In British Columbia, the popularity of the backcountry has helped turn guided skiing into big business. |
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Training is a major commitment for technically focused firms today, and it has become a big business. |
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Instead, the need for mammoth funds to mount election campaigns allowed big business to keep buying influence. |
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When the president came on the scene in 2000, he made it clear that big business should mind its own business. |
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That all politicians are fiendish scofflaws is a given, as is their role as lackeys greasing the money chutes of big business. |
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The thing is, it feels to me like you're thinking of game development as big business, corporate, organised fare. |
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The two big business parties come close to criminalizing third-party candidates and those who support them. |
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The public has long been suspicious of big business, but the recent financial meltdowns have created even more disdain and distrust. |
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Can democracy survive a system in which politicians and political parties are dependent on the support of big business? |
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But opposition by the government and big business to anything but a token pay increase has nothing to do with concern for the unemployed. |
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It has shown mass action from below can topple governments and inflict a defeat on big business policies. |
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Are any of them going to risk losing corporate campaign contributions by severing government programs that benefit big business? |
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Selling books is big business with branches of Waterstones, Blackwells and Ottakers springing up all over the place. |
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What the American experience tells us is that farmers' markets are big business. |
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So internet dating is big business, and growing in credibility year on year. |
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We must not let the politicians and big business hide behind these tragic events to attack the working class. |
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They are ineptly led and cut off from important sections of big business by their line over Europe. |
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Others question his knowledge of small firms, suggesting he only knows about big business. |
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It was becoming big business and I remember saying to a pal that, if we wanted, we could take over the town. |
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Yet when it comes to voting, they choose the interests of big business over their own. |
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One of these views of the film will dominate depending on how you see the world of big business. |
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They say the summit's aims of free trade and open borders help big business and hurt the poor. |
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To side with big business against environmental regulation does these countries no credit. |
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Modern rugby is big business and it is vital to have men with the right background at the centre of the game in Scotland. |
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You could say Don is grateful at being awash in support and cash from his friends in big business. |
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The charges are a sweetener for big business to move into privatised waste collection. |
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The decision of big business to enter the pharmacy retail sector is not an issue. |
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Irish nightclubs are big business but public order concerns are threatening to cut short the party. |
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The countryside is changing and strawberries are big business, explains Pentabus. |
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The first is the face of big business, with every comfort and amenity at its disposal. |
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A group set up to help children get a helping hand from big business has closed. |
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Dieting has become big business, with everything from pills to soaps which claim to fight the flab. |
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This is prime land, housing here would fetch huge prices and so, for a quarter of a century, a sort of big business game of chicken has developed. |
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But despite the thrills of modern technology, today the vogue for antique timepieces is big business, with collectors spending serious money on complex, hand-crafted gems. |
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The major parties in Tasmania always cuddle up to big business. |
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As the number has swelled, the attention that tourism has got from the Government and the big business houses has made the small and medium entrepreneurs a trifle uneasy. |
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The French government had planned to give more autonomy to universities, giving them freedom to increase tuition fees as well as opening the doors to big business. |
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And at least some of them emanate from right wing political lobbies funded by big business interests who want to avoid being sued for malpractice. |
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However it seems increasingly clear that it has been well out of its depth in the hard-nosed world of big business that the health service has now become. |
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Escorting is big business on the straight side too, only more of a hush-hush operation. |
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Yet as mindfulness grows into big business, the cracks are beginning to show. |
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With its decades-long history of offering quickie hitches and divorces, marriage has long been a big business in Nevada. |
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The real losers were moderate-to-liberal Republicans who favored Wall Street and big business. |
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We learned about big business and how the big labels do it, and how it runs, a big machine. |
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Whatever the legitimation in terms of harmonious labour relations, corporatism in practice ensured that the interests of big business prevailed over those of organized labour. |
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For much of the nineties, big business spent enormous energy on promoting the idea that markets and not the ballot box were the true instrument of democracy. |
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I don't understand all the technical jargon, but do agree with the general gist of maintaining freedom of communication outside the oppression of big business monopolies. |
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It is about time the party stopped its pretence of acting on behalf of all the people when the only people it represents are the well off, big business and the privileged. |
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And big business is often in an unholy alliance with bureaucrats and politicians who see a surveillance society as a quick fix for social and economic management problems. |
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It might be big business in some of our larger playhouses, but elsewhere around the country theatres are developing a new tradition of Christmas children's show. |
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They quarantined the city workers' struggle, confining it within the political straitjacket of collective bargaining and appeals to the big business politicians. |
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It is hardly surprising that they find nothing to identify with in a project that so fatuously sings the praises of a future dominated by big business. |
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Fighting mold is big business, an untold story in the building industry. |
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Unions exist because, without them, the path is opened wide to crony collaboration between big government and big business. |
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For 18 hours, La Follette stood against a banking bill he believed to be too friendly to big business. |
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Shopping for cosmetics and toiletries online is now big business. |
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Well, one mighty big business that has been especially loud about telling government to keep its cotton-picking hands out of their business is the meat industry. |
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After the poll is over, the promises and pledges will be shelved and the program of big business will prevail no matter what its impact on working people. |
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We are as suspicious of big business as we are of big government. |
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Both this case and the Sterling case are shaking down as classic struggles between academic integrity and the power and influence of big business on university campuses. |
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Smartphone apps like Grindr have been able to parlay that acceleration of trust into a big business. |
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And Stowe Mountain Resort does a big business with a mulled wine. |
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The paralyzing narrowness of American political life, with its minuscule differences between two big business parties, can be traced back to this period. |
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This is a big business that can be leveraged in a few interesting ways. |
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And labor, vastly outspent by big business in this right-to-work state, responded to Spitzer, and to clean elections in general, with a certain enthusiasm. |
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Despite the derision that its scripted matches, over-the-top trash talk, and outlandish characters sometimes inspire, professional wrestling is big business. |
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A fragile center-right parliamentary majority emerged, composed of free-market liberals, conservative nationalists, and parties with ties to oligarchic clans and big business. |
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It would require all meetings between big business and those in administration to be minuted and available on government websites for public scrutiny. |
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Product brands are big business today, and brand management rules. |
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If extreme sports didn't exist big business would have to invent them. |
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Taxes for big business and the rich are to be lowered even further, while the broad population will be subjected to a 2 percent increase in value added tax. |
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It is based on a one-sidedly negative account of modern agriculture, scientific and technological experimentation and the track record of big business and government. |
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As erythropoietin and heparin attest, the study of sugars, a field known as glycobiology, can be big business. |
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Serving this market has become big business around the major ferry ports of Calais, Boulogne, and Dunkirk in France, and Ostend in Belgium. |
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Some business experts felt that nothing could prevent the concentration of industry and therefore big business was here to stay. |
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The neo-liberal reforms after the fall of the Soeharto regime in Indonesia sustainedly strengthened the big business groups. |
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In Mississippi, growing and selling this Christmas flower is a big business. |
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Weddings are big business in Japan, and as time means money, conveyor belt systematisation has taken hold. |
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Any way you look at it, the merchandising of movies has become big business. |
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It is often suggested that politicians are too inclined to cosy up to big business in order to receive funds for election expenses. |
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And while games mean big business for the pubs, bars, restaurants and fast food outlets, other shops claim their profits take a match day nosedive. |
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Commercial fishing is big business in the Bering Sea, which is relied upon by the largest seafood companies in the world to produce fish and shellfish. |
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Aromatherapy is a big business, and its roots run deep in folk medicine. |
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Our professional-grade video security system is an affordable alternative to more costly and complex systems and offers big business security at a small business price. |
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