All this has reinforced the idea that banking is simply a gravy train for employees.
The cable companies are too entrenched and making too much money to risk disrupting their gravy train.
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Attending Fashion Week shows may seem like a glitzy gravy train of free champagne, swag and air kisses.
This gravy train kept rolling because my firm would fire the bad managers and herald their replacements as superstars.
Muskogee County is supposed to celebrate when a federal gravy train arrives, right?
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.
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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Black mayors have made strides in giving black constituents a fairer share of the gravy train of city contracts and patronage jobs.
There is too much money at stake now, from the youth level on up, to pull away the scholarships driving the youth sports gravy train.
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Thus corrupted on the public interest in fiscal responsibility, they could be expected to vote for their special interest to keep their gravy train going.
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But I do wonder how easy it will be to get a research-level DNA sequence if sequencing manages to get on the medical reimbursement gravy train.
Among the administration's detractors is Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who once accused ministers of only stopping the gravy train long enough for them to climb onto it.
Original leader and UKIP founder Alan Sked quit before the 1999 European elections, after arguing the party should refuse seats in the "gravy train" of the Strasbourg Parliament.
Talk of how an Obama presidency might affect Chicago range from the petty (will motorcades mean more traffic?) to the presumptuous (when will the gravy train roll in?).
The purpose of the call was to instruct me, the director of a private company with little experience in the ways of Washington, on exactly how one boards the gravy train.
Of course the headhunters themselves have a financial incentive to provide this answer - since they get a commission from recruiting senior directors, and are therefore on board the big-pay gravy train.
Arguably, the top fund managers - those who vote the shares we hold in our pensions or assorted long-term savings schemes - are disincentivised to be too aggressive in limiting corporate pay rises, because they are on the same gravy train.
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But this argument is a sham, and demonstrates just how desperate the NHL is to keep the public gravy train going, and how desperate Glendale is to paper over the terrible decision it made 8 years ago when it initially built the stadium.
And what does that say about the moral probity of the New York Board of Regents when it deliberately eliminates or weaken exams in order to prop up test scores in a thinly veiled attempt to keep the philanthropic gravy train from corporations, nonprofits, and the federal government rolling right along?
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That General Mills managed such robust dividend payouts without putting upward pressure on the dividend payout ratio (the percentage of profits the dividend represents) and the cash dividend payout ratio (the proportion of free cash flow that goes to dividend payouts) is good evidence that its dividend gravy train is in great shape.
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