sweetheart contract

"There will be no sweetheart contracts with anybody," he said.

His sweetheart contracts were part of the reasons the players dumped him.

Until recently, the board of trustees did its business - like giving out sweetheart contracts - in private.

Is that 10 years of patronage, padded accounts and sweetheart contracts?

A subsequent investigation turned up allegations of bribes from employers for sweetheart contracts.

The Government, no stranger to sweetheart contracts and kickbacks, had given the franchise for the devices to a single company.

Regime cronies are feasting on the nation's natural resources, grabbing land and sweetheart contracts.

"The union has never had sweetheart contracts.

It reminds them of the days of back-room deals and sweetheart contracts.

There is no excuse for waste, cronyism, sweetheart contracts and a bloated management cadre.

"There was no sexual harassment, no sweetheart contracts, no donations of political contributions."

A sweetheart deal or sweetheart contract is an abnormally favorable contractual arrangement.

Mr. Pennington was seen by many voters as too close to the city's political establishment, with its history of cronyism and sweetheart contracts.

The company, under inept but lavishly paid management, ran up huge losses, provided poor service to key corporate clients and handed sweetheart contracts to directors.

But over the decades they became known for growth in other areas: self-administered salary increases, sweetheart contracts, expensive lunches, mini police forces, even an airport.

He accuses the multinational mining companies that drive the economy of having obtained sweetheart contracts, and he promises to squeeze them.

Similarly, sweetheart contracts between mob-controlled unions and employers may result in lower pay and, therefore, lower prices.

And a recent series in The Times exposed a pattern of managerial miscues, including dubious sweetheart contracts with corporate insiders.

The second bill would end the sweetheart contracts awarded years ago to the companies that run the lodges, souvenir shops and other facilities inside the parks.

But the District Attorney was already investigating allegations that employers had paid bribes to officials at Local 810 in exchange for sweetheart contracts.

In the context of employment rights, a sweetheart contract can involve a deal between an employer and trade union officials that benefits both at the expense of employees.

Mr. Chavez complained that the teamsters were signing "sweetheart contracts," and before long his hard-won gains in Delano seemed to be slipping away.

Named by Pennsylvania Panel Mr. Kelly charged that the result was a sweetheart contract for the casino and organized-crime influence in the employee trust fund.

In 1975, a New York State court ousted the executors, canceled their sweetheart contracts with Marlborough and fined them and the gallery $9.2 million.

Instead, he has pledged to add faculty and research staff positions, saying that eventually their work will make the university better known for its medical abstracts than its sweetheart contracts.