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Pros and Cons: Press Junkets | GamePolitics [#]
If there's one issue games journalists love to argue about besides the best scoring system for reviews, it's got to be press junkets. In case your not familiar with the practice, it's when a game publisher or developer pays for a ...
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Democrats Reject Cuba Travel Junkets [#]
At that point, Meek broke away and never looked back. Is the Obama Administration paying attention? Let's hope so -- as they are considering making these Greene-type junkets the norm.
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The Lazio Junkets | The New York Observer [#]
When Rick Lazio ran for Congress in 1992, he spent a great deal of time criticizing his opponent, 18-year incumbent Tom Downey, for taking junkets--those trips members of Congress do not pay for, in theory because the matters are ...
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Congressman Wilson: Junkets don't involve body armor (AUDIO) [#]
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How game publishers Captivate journalists with junkets « The Game Beat [#]
Ostensibly, the purpose of these kinds of events -- known as junkets in the industry -- is to write up early access previews of upcoming games and interact with the people who make them. But the fringe benefits of these ...
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J&J Is Biggest Spender on Military Prescribing Junkets | BNET [#]
Johnson & Johnson was the biggest spender on free travel for Pentagon medical officials — junkets to conferences that have since been banne.
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Media junkets from hell :: Marklives!com [#]
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Capitol Hill Cubans: Democrats Reject Cuba Travel Junkets [#]
Democrats Reject Cuba Travel Junkets. at 10:28 AM Wednesday, August 25, 2010. Last night, Florida Democratic primary voters overwhelmingly elected US Rep Kendrick Meek as their nominee for the US Senate. …
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Majority of judges hearing drilling moratorium appeal attended oil ... [#]
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"Junket of all junkets" [#]
He says that "in the mother of all recessions" September's state visit will be "the junket of all junkets". He concludes that the Vatican's real objective is to secure "the Anglican sheep that are in the process of going over to Rome ...
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Diary of a wine junket: Can editorial integrity be bought ... [#]
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The month in junkets [#]
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[eurofreedom] JUNKETS [#]
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out Eurokleptocrats are often taking very expensive junkets, taking advantage of their positions and access to public funds to undertake pleasure trips thinly disguised as being of political ...
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The Public Forum . . . El Foro Público | La Prensa San Diego [#]
Sweetwater Authority board members cut out the junkets before taxing the citizens On behalf of South Bay residents and ratepayers we unequivocally.
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Some New York junket veterans — like a man named Brad Balfour who I have run into at press screenings and interviews and who has eyed my audio equipment not so out of bonhomie or curiosity, but with the hope of discerning some way that ...
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o'emperor - Q & A on o'junkets [#]
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Pre-Election 'Junkets' By MPs [#]
The Mail reports that "MPs squandered hundreds of thousands of pounds on junkets to exotic locations during the dying months of the last government, the Daily Mail can reveal. They travelled to dozens of far-flung locations including ...
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Senate Junkets at Record Pace [#]
Senate's Costs for Foreign Travel May Set Record - Roll Call I guess if the King and Queen can party on the taxpayer's dollar -- so can the House and Senate. They're on track to double the cost of last year. Time to take out the trash ...
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The Good Ol' Back-Scratchin' Days of TV Junkets [#]
Received the following email from Cliff Dektar, who can remember when TV press junkets actually began in Los Angeles in the 1950s. We've come a long way, it seems, from the shenanigans then to the austere nature of the current...
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Censored News Page 2: Israel Junkets Compromise Congress [#]
Following the Jack Abramoff scandal of 2006 stricter limits were adopted by the House in order to expose and prevent corporate-sponsored junkets. The new ethics rules stipulated that members could not accept trip funding from ...
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Tram firm under fire over spending on consultants and staff junkets [#]
Tram firm under fire over spending on consultants and staff junkets HUNDREDS of thousands of pounds has been paid out in bonuses for work that was never carried out on Edinburgh's crisis-hit trams project, it has emerged. ...
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Busy Ga. port may lose race with Panama Canal – BusinessWeek ... [#]
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Tech writer defends junkets - Boing Boing [#]
NYT tech writer David Pogue writes that junkets are OK because it's pre-approved by his editors. NYTPick contends that his appearances nonetheless contradict New York Times ethics rules which see others fired for lesser infractions. ...
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MPs' last hurrah: £1.7m cost of junkets in run-up to the election [#]
They utilised all sorts of subterfuge to cover the real purpose of the visit. But our MPs still took us to the cleaners. I hope the coalition can put a lid on this:- MPs' last hurrah: £1.7m cost of junkets in run-up to the election ...
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MP junkets cost taxpayers close to £1.7m [#]
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Rangel: I Was Misled On Caribbean Junkets; Ethics Panel: Us Too ... [#]
The ethics committee's official report admonishing Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), released late last night, concludes that Rangel's staff knew that two Caribbean junkets were paid for by corporations, in violation of House rules.
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