If the funds didn't live up to expectations, those gratuities were taken away, Galvin said.

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Booze, crew gratuities and sometimes even airfare, shore excursions and pre- or post-cruise hotel stays are included in the advertised price.

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Ask for change and a quick primer on local tipping, including the gratuities expected by hotel staff, taxi drivers and waiters.

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Gratuities, of course, greatly supplement the earnings of waiters and card dealers.

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Beginning in June 2004, Mr Nagin took payments, travel and other gratuities in exchange for city contracts and other favours, prosecutors said.

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And although the British are notoriously low tippers, we Americans make up for it every time we come over with our lavish 20% gratuities.

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Its founder, Cleveland developer Carl Milstein, was convicted in the 1970s of offering illegal gratuities to a federal housing official and spent four months in Pennsylvania's Allenwood prison.

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In addition to the below-market rent, it gave hedge fund clients low-interest personal loans, lavish perks and other gratuities to induce the funds to stay and generate additional business for UBS's prime brokerage operations.

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Bring appropriate gifts and gratuities for your hosts.

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Although the budget does contain meat, some measures are simply sauce, such as moving three national holidays, delaying the payment of retirement gratuities to civil servants and threatening to withhold Christmas bonuses from underperforming public employees.

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