"He used to pad around listening to all, " says a friend of Diana's mother.
It encourages agencies to pad their activity, and to bill inflated costs to the clients.
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The most feasible solution is to pad their non-conference schedule with opponents from the power conferences.
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That said, the Brits have plenty of opportunities to pad the medal tally.
Headhunters might contact you merely to pad the list of applicants they present to an employer, without taking you seriously, for instance.
Lesson: Try to avoid using client information to pad your own pocket.
For the thrifty gamer, however, revisiting and completing earlier stages with your improved arsenal is a great way to pad your virtual currency.
Another sop to the soft-hearted 21st-century modern man is the option of using straw to pad your socks and hopefully cushion the blows.
This time, CEOs won't be able to use taxpayer money to pad their paychecks or buy fancy drapes or disappear on a private jet.
Quotas force firms either to pad their boards with token non-executive directors, or to allocate real power on the basis of sex rather than merit.
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Mayweather has been criticized for handpicking his opponents to pad his undefeated record, which reached 44-0 this month after he crushed Roberto Guerrero in a unanimous decision.
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If he has established such an accomplished and credible track record, why does he feel the need to pad his resume with a measly extra 2nd degree?
The Red Bulls had a slight edge in ball possession, but the Impact dominated the scoring chances and wasted a handful of opportunities to pad the lead.
This time -- this time, CEOs won't be able to use taxpayer money to pad their paychecks, or buy fancy drapes, or disappear on a private jet.
Dating back several quarters, big banks have allowed the massive reserves put aside to cover potential mortgage losses in the wake of the financial crisis to pad earnings.
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With little awareness of the power outage, the group bantered about the game to pad for time, even though viewers at that point had little interest in football strategy.
Rather than avenging angels protecting the American consumer from harm, opportunistic plaintiffs can easily become 21st century robber barons looking to pad their bottom lines and crush their opposition.
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Pro-lawyer members of Congress are still hoping to pass a law overturning the 2008 Stoneridge decision that rejected lawsuits against companies that perhaps inadvertently aided a manufacturer to pad its earnings numbers.
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To make matters worse, the three-phase benefit--each with its own set of rules--creates powerful incentives for old people, with the connivance or even the active participation of doctors and druggists, to pad their pill expenses.
To the extent that judges sentence convicted executives to community service in place of prison, the work should not be an opportunity for those felons, whatever their social standing, to pad their resumes with marquee humanitarian work.
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We worked in the creative department developing ads and we considered our ad work creative, but it wasn't half as creative as the work we'd put in to pad our time sheets every Monday morning since layoffs began.
This classification is typically in the form of requesters asking you to sign up for services, register for events, click to sites, send email or notifications to others, and other actions to pad numbers of registrations or directly spam information.
But, unlike the Rolling Stones, say, who have not written a great song since the disco era and come together only to pad their fortunes as their own cover band, Springsteen refuses to be a mercenary curator of his past.
But the allegiance to shareholder value has helped inflate 2 of the biggest bubbles in stock market history, forced corporate leaders to pad short-term income statements and "put chief executives in an unreal world where they lose their moral compass, " said Martin.
And, yes, this is the same Senator Grothman who wants to defund kindergarten programs for 4-year-olds because, argues Grothman, any academic benefits disappear by the fourth grade, and the program is used by school districts to pad their budgets to get more state aid.
These stalls stay open from dawn until very late and offer everything from Thai salads and curries to pad thai and other dishes with a Phuket twist - especially their version of the humble fried potato, twirled on a stick and coated with tom yum flavour.
DovCharneyDov Charney, the embattled CEO of the hipster-retail empire American Apparel, is facing allegations in a lawsuit by a former employee that he held staff meetings in the nude, pranced through the office in his skivvies, and tried to pad the inventory numbers to mislead potential investors.
It will be moved to Launch Pad A this month after Atlantis is moved back to its hangar.
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