Such silence brings grants, protection, and government largess and the appearance of a voice in policy.
Markets are just like individuals in that they do react to subsidy and government largess.
The Persian Gulf War and Kosovo conflict have provided ample largess to the Chinese archives.
In return for granting this largess to selected corporations and unions, government officials get to remain in power.
Politicians like to offer this largess because they get photo-ops with celebrities, but the economic payoff is minuscule.
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Before dismissing as excessive her surgery-like solutions to government largess, read the book.
Boot exposes as fallacious the grounds upon which U.S. policy-makers justify this largess.
More and more members of the middle class, as the Times points out, are now recipients of government largess.
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Why institutionalize government hand-outs for those unworthy of that taxpayer or citizen largess?
This is what's known as "loading the Christmas tree" with promises of bridges and other shows of federal largess.
Obama, in a rare display of agitation, also took a swipe at executive largess at Citigroup without mentioning the company by name.
The impetus to direct largess toward constituents with the power to keep them in office is always too powerful to resist.
Most serious regulation-watchers would say that anyone who buys that number must also believe in the largess of the Tooth Fairy.
But for years, the organization has been criticized for being long on donor benefits and tax avoidance and short on charitable largess.
Never mind the deep pockets for a moment, if only to understand the sort of wisdom that provides for that sort of monetary largess.
Due to the long-standing largess of the club, fully 70% of the fixed salaries and benefits of the employees were insulated from reduction or elimination.
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The Putin system, like all government systems, depends on extending largess to favored interest groups, and the costs of doing so have gotten progressively larger.
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But those were the only two companies that received federal largess.
"I'm sure all jurors have tremendous hardships that would greatly be alleviated with the largess of this court and by any type of compensation, " Shapiro said.
The Government cannot wait to get its hands on some of those cash flows and figure out new and innovative ways to maintain its size, largess and growth.
Unfortunately, politicians are quite adept at evading restrictions on their power, and are nearly universally enamored with the power to bestow taxpayer largess on companies of their choosing.
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One thing is to accept Venezuelan largess but another thing is to move his country into a Chavista sphere of influence by showing disdain and undermining state institutions.
Even more than taxpayer largess, businesses crave certainty from Washington.
The New Year's Day legislation is breathtaking in its largess.
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These impulses can combine in a particularly potent way when government has so expanded its role in American life that everyone is benefiting from its largess in varying ways.
That effort fell short, a demonstration of the limits of the billionaire mayor's largess in Congress and the relative power of gun-rights groups such as the National Rifle Association.
The issue of taxation is a sensitive one for Afghanistan, which is increasingly assertive of its sovereignty yet remains dependent on international largess to pay for its military and police.
Moreover, who can blame poorly educated, ignorant people for believing that they are entitled to government largess when they have been told this repeatedly by those who should know better?
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When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.
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