Shadow culture secretary Pater Ainsworth said the deal smacked of "dither, delay, prevarication and cronyism".
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Another student wondered what role, if any, cronyism plays in the decision making of venture capitalists.
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Through cronyism, investors secured funding for many projects that never should have left the drawing board.
Price rationing works to eradicate cronyism, so the planners see it as away from the collective.
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To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.
And by putting resources to less-efficient use, cronyism actually kills jobs rather than creating them.
Perhaps the worst case is the cronyism of government favoring some corporations over others.
But matters are worse in universities, where patronage, cronyism and secure tenure are the rule.
Independent institutions are trying to tackle cronyism and enforce a division between money and politics.
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Faltering stabs at free-market reform have failed to mollify investors wary of cronyism and corruption.
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So far, his career, in keeping with post-communist Russia, has been marked by cronyism and authoritarianism.
And both claim to detest the bloated cronyism that has flourished since the transition to capitalism.
The thinking goes: Why bother with exotic, risky places where cronyism and flimflammery rule?
Punitive taxation, onerous regulation, economic uncertainty and cronyism will only prolong the current malaise.
UMNO's annual congress in June, the leader of the party's youth wing attacked cronyism and corruption.
Why this occurred is a bit more complicated than a mere case of professional cronyism.
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To be sure, corporate cronyism does not always work out well for those who engage in it.
Given the particular sensitivity of Halliburton, what can the Bush administration do to allay suspicions of cronyism?
Rampant cronyism threatens the economic foundations that have made this the most prosperous country in the world.
The main priority is to clean up the White House and to remove the tinge of cronyism.
Indonesia is stirring under decent democratic rule, ditto Malaysia (Islamism and cronyism being question marks in both).
Many nominations reflect cronyism, not legal expertise and the European Court's rulings are binding on all member states.
First is the history of gambling in Louisiana, which has been tainted by cronyism and political corruption.
The reason this time is not the sleaze and cronyism of the 1990s, but Slovakia's prickly principles.
The U.S. has intervened to prop up failing banks as well as corporations measures best described as cronyism.
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Further, governments are often not very good at these functions, and cronyism is likely to creep in.
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He then went on to explain one aspect of Silicon Valley that some observers might confuse with cronyism.
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Unfortunately, the Obama Adminstration is gravitating towards more cronyism in higher education, driving us further from market equilibrium.
There is ample historical evidence that government control over banks' lending can breed cronyism and misallocation of funds.
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