Not to mention its upper management was rewarded with bonuses in September, right after the languid convention and the embarrassing European trip.

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Reward yourself with a trip to the next convention for people in your industry.

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The winner of each will receive a trip to their party's convention.

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In August 1996, not long before President Clinton was to come to Chicago for that year's Democratic convention, Senator Moseley-Braun made a freelance trip to Nigeria to meet General Sani Abacha, the head of a military regime that had jailed the winner of an election and executed political opponents.

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Obama's trip comes a week before the start of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.

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It was her first trip home since she became an instant celebrity during the Republican Convention.

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