That has led to all manner of wining, dining and dishing out of cash.
Moxley warned that it was not all wining and dining, nor was it particularly interesting.
That is at least according to a recent analysis that looked at award-wining films over the past 12 years.
GlobalExpense checks the receipts, pays the expenses and throws in a few extras such as related tax work and information on whom the company's employees are wining and dining.
Critics said Dell's practice of selling direct to corporate customers, rather than through distributors, wouldn't work in China, where salesmanship is based on wining and dining, not pointing and clicking.
Though many people may picture PR execs wining and dining and taking lunch with friends and connections around town, in fact they face almost constant rejection from people like me.
Born in 1999, the Euro is once again occupying the time and minds of politicians and economists across the single currency region as they gather in Berlin for yet more wining and dining.
The Italian-accented Cornerstone restaurant brought one of the first open kitchens to Korea, but the showstopper spot for wining and dining is the Timber House lounge on the belowground level of the hotel.
Three hours of prime television real estate reaching a global audience of up to a billion people, with guaranteed international press coverage and an Oscar-wining director in charge to boot is worth a lot.
Success depended on wining moderates from both parties.
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England can still win the Six Nations, but they need an unlikely set of results, starting with Italy wining in France on Sunday - the Italians have only beaten Les Bleus once in 30 previous meetings.
Meredith McGehee, policy director for the Campaign Legal Center, says over-the-top wining and dining, a hallmark of past conventions, is probably a thing of the past--but there will still be "a fair amount of partying" going on.
"It was apparent to us that one day the robots would take over the world, and we decided we wanted to be on the wining side, " Wright wrote in a note posted on Wednesday to Sporum, the official "Spore" forum.
So some airlines have taken to occasionally wining and dining them and monitoring FlyerTalk, Twitter and blogs, responding directly to customers who post problems and coddling online communities with special sales and, in extreme cases, CEO dinners and backstage access at airports.
For all the talk of a new Galacticos team at Madrid, what they really have now, which they have not had for a while, is an extraordinarily successful manager (and arguably one player who makes the difference between wining and losing in Cristiano Ronaldo).
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As a result of all this cash up for grabs, plus the opportunity for a mid-level Tour player to make a seven figure annual income without ever actually wining, there will always be a crop of new young guns following in the footsteps of McIlroy and Bubba Watson.
Devenport informed Alison that, since Dr Paisley's assertion, the Ulster Unionist MP, Harold McCusker had written to the Secretary of State that the DUP leader's allegation of 'wining and dining' might have been based on a rumour that soldiers who were supposed to be defending the area 'had, in fact, been drinking in Hughes' Hotel, Middletown (South Armagh).
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