"It doesn't do any favors to the IPA, " one of the experts sniffed.
The Times may instead be hoping to avoid owing any favors to a source with which it has feuded publicly.
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Do you recognize that, by creating the ability to offer special favors to selected industries, protectionism creates enormous opportunities for corruption?
In the end, they are not doing any favors to the club, to the rest of the fans and to the players.
It's one thing to harp on the scandal involving Abramoff, the convicted lobbyist who distributed favors to his political pals, mostly Republican.
Both, however, care deeply about the political power that campaign cash can buy and are willing to trade favors to get it.
On the other hand, after Carney crashed the crony carouse, look for some of the worst tax favors to be excised in coming years.
When politicians grant special favors to a certain industry or a particular union, such decisions necessarily mean that market forces are being replaced by special-interest deal-making.
They have taken up Mr. Kim's crusade to clean up government, end special favors to big business, and bring unprecedented transparency to the conduct of politics and finance.
Meanwhile, Republicans need to quit sniping at each other and decide how they are going to deal with the fact that Democrats have perfected the art of using government favors to garner votes.
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The lesson is clear: at this stage in American history, the noble ideal of a government that serves all and protects the conditions that give rise to a healthy economy has a hard time prevailing against a political machine that focuses its energies on the single-minded goal of using federal favors to buy enough votes to win.
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We're taught not to ask for favors, but to thank Vahe-guru, the highest teacher, for grace, for our critical faculties, intuition and creativity.
There are print publications that celebrate wedding design from bridal gowns to wedding favors, signature cocktails to bowties and everything in between.
Perhaps because safety is one of the criteria, along with progressive environmental policies, the survey favors small to medium-sized cities like Vancouver.
So long as the discussion centers around minor changes to marginal rates, we can know that, whether they go higher or lower, the headline numbers will be a sideshow relative to the various favors given in order to reduce what we pay.
"We're bringing boxing back to its roots, " says HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg, who favors a return to a 1980s model where only big fights featuring the likes of Thomas Hearns, Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard were deemed worthy of closed-circuit status (closed-circuit theater and arena telecasts being the forerunner of today's pay-per-view).
Much like businesses playing games to avoid the law, any attempts by labor to seek special favors for their membership will only serve to undermine the opportunity to bring healthcare to all Americans and destroy any opportunity we have to see what the ACA can do to improve American healthcare.
This is where Tognazzini suffers a failure of imagination, and doesn't do Apple any favors in trying to stimulate interest in smartwatch usability concepts.
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If you're not interested in buying a bunch of themed favors and prefer to have your party leave a small environmental footprint, that's possible, too.
The unseen part is what the economy loses when capital flows are distorted through tax favors, not to mention the great minds we lose to the tax-avoidance industry.
Affleck also didn't do himself any favors by trying to dismiss the criticism with a glib remark that essentially said that it really doesn't matter that the actor playing Mendez isn't Latino since Mendez himself isn't, shall we say, overtly Latino.
If the Supreme Court votes to outlaw tax favors, Congress probably would revive them with a statute granting permission to the states to go back to their old habits.
Indeed, he made clear that to enact the sort of unpopular, radical domestic and foreign policies he favors, he is willing to diminish his prospects for reelection.
Plus, the tax code is a wonderful place to hide favors for special interests.
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He favors using tax breaks to coax corporate spending rather than imposing new rules that require it.
But at the same time, the recipients of those favors wanted a way to recognize that generosity.
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This may mean tough decisions and disappointment for special interests that are accustomed to special favors from the government.
Last year, two former executives were convicted of conspiring with an ex-city official to trade favors for city contracts.
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