Even more than in Canada, in Japan projects like this are gravy-laden for the favored few.
In this scenario, I'd almost prefer to be the latter because, well ... gravy.
In the pre-digital magazine world, newsstand sales were incidental gravy, subscribers were loss leaders.
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Louis backyard barbecued ribs, pork chops smothered in gravy and onions, and honey-dipped Southern fried chicken.
If you get the broad adoption needed to achieve success, everything else is gravy.
All this has reinforced the idea that banking is simply a gravy train for employees.
He called Evanger's and obtained cans of whole mackerel and beef tips with gravy.
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His settings are finely painted with the colours of time: neon today, gravy-brown for 1950s Britain.
Since management fees are modest, the real gravy is the performance fee, normally 20% of profits.
Pure gravy for Gemstar, since it kicks back just 15% of the ad revenues to the participating cable company.
The steak and kidney pie was just as likely to be watery gravy under a concrete crust.
In this scenario, the added value of staying online when the grid goes down is like gravy.
The cable companies are too entrenched and making too much money to risk disrupting their gravy train.
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He was eating a full meal, something slopped in brown gravy from the center of the earth.
As the oats tenderize they'll release their starch and produce a sumptuous gravy that binds the dish together.
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Effectively Liverpool had an identity that could hold its own with Mr. Gerrard: anything he provided was gravy.
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Attending Fashion Week shows may seem like a glitzy gravy train of free champagne, swag and air kisses.
No one should leave Montreal, however, without tucking into the decadent local favourite: poutine (fries smothered in gravy and cheese curds).
As long as the Islamic Republic can sell oil at high prices, Iran's gravy train will trundle on.
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This gravy train kept rolling because my firm would fire the bad managers and herald their replacements as superstars.
After they sell the advertising to cover the nut, the rest is gravy.
Muskogee County is supposed to celebrate when a federal gravy train arrives, right?
The crab gravy would be served with an undressed pasta, usually spaghetti, though I always asked for angel hair.
Then whisk the gravy until it thickens to the consistency that you like.
It tasted exactly as I expected: a porky mouthful aided by gravy.
After stunning the world twice in the last week, FGCU is about to hop onto quite the financial gravy train.
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The Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg told me that it would bring the gravy train of European Parliament to Westminster.
And their poutines are exactly what you crave after midnight, with fat chips that retain their texture against smooth, well-seasoned gravy.
The welfare lobby, bureaucrats, and other recipients of taxpayer largesse are becoming increasingly agitated that their gravy train may be derailed.
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So the fact that Amazon raised the bar with updates to the Kindle's software feature set is just gravy on the cake.
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