Media junkets are taken to observe groups of American soldiers digging for crash sites.
Reporters flock to junkets for the chance to hear a joke from the star.
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Tested strategies include holiday junkets for foreign politicians and journalists, and research grants for academics.
Its clientele consists in large part of hard-core players on junkets, plus day-trippers from Hong Kong.
Also like Mossberg, Rojas accepts no gifts and no junkets, and returns the products that he tests.
These men are as far from corporate junkets, or Las Vegas hotels, as it is possible to imagine.
And while the debate over junkets rages in the virtual world, the practice does, in fact, have a history of official regulation.
It was hosted by a group that included Grant Woods, Chuck Coughlin and HighGround lobbyist Doug Cole who attended Fiesta Bowl junkets.
"We will begin doing press and media next week providing exclusive interviews and press junkets, " Jones said in an e-mail to CNN on Thursday.
To entice managers to sign contracts, Palm is cosponsoring the professional golfers' tour, escorting honchos on golf junkets and lending them handhelds to use on the course to check out the leader board.
Proprietors Rudolph and Roy Terry were accused of living a "champagne lifestyle" with company assets--from junkets to Las Vegas and sports skybox rentals to purchasing millions of dollars' worth of real estate in Jamaica.
Calandra, who recommended Ivanhoe Energy and Ivanhoe Mines in his newsletter, numerous Internet columns and on the CBS Marketwatch television program, said he had fully disclosed the junkets and his share ownership in Ivanhoe Energy.
But today's 11-hour junkets from San Francisco to Tokyo eclipse the DC-7-era's San Francisco-New York routes by just three hours, and come with a lot more comfort (though no doubt the players' union would have plenty to say about such trips).
For the authors, their trade deficits with Cambridge restaurants, airlines taking them to junkets around the world, and Newbury Street clothiers are their certain rewards for trade surpluses run with their employers at HBS, the publisher of their book, and the businesses that pay them consulting fees in return for the kind of advice that would bankrupt most any business if actually followed.
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