"My ongoing investigation will expose these under-the-table kickbacks, " declares California's insurance commissioner, John Garamendi.
Officials ask the art dealer for under-the-table fees before sculptures for export can be signed off.
What will likely occur are complaints of corrupt bargains and under-the-table deals against whoever wins the nomination.
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Ahmedi says he has had to pay under-the-table kickbacks to some foreign aid agencies even for humanitarian construction projects like schools.
But if they make any other kind of under-the-table payment to secure its release that would be a clear violation of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act.
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But the larger problem is, if you have these under-the-table deals that give the Russians permission to do these things, it gives the signal that it's O.
Most significant to the street changers: an increase in how much foreign currency individuals traveling abroad can buy legally from banks, a move that would threaten their substantial under-the-table business.
The union, in turn, concealed the under-the-table payments and the fact that events it portrayed as "investment seminars" were actually ING-sponsored sales pitches, according to the findings of the attorney general's office.
In effect - and especially as employed by the Obama administration - the CIA has become the president's private army, with a classified budget, contracts with some extremely dubious operatives and under-the-table relations with thuggish and oppressive foreign governments.
The hidden cost of kickbacks and bribes imposes numerous challenges upon the victimized hospitals and their patients overcharges for services that could have been obtained cheaper elsewhere, a lessening in the integrity of critical maintenance, and the whole host of crap that goes hand in hand with the corrosive nature of backdoor and under-the-table dealings.
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This, though, is used as a counterpoint to a flashback showing a young Margaret in another grocers shop - her father's - sheltering under a table during the Blitz.
Do you remember the time when you could type sms at lightning-speed under the table on the old Nokia phone without so much as glancing at the keyboard?
"The abusive men I have worked with say they don't use violence until they have their feet under the table - usually until there is a wedding ring or the woman is pregnant, " says Craven.
Linen tablecloths hid the wood-burning braziers set under each table to ward off the chill.
They were either over-investing in some areas or under-investing in others with the result that they were leaving money on the table and missing out on deals they might otherwise have won.
Meanwhile bosses grumble that nobody pays attention in meetings any more, because they are so busy doing e-mail under the table.
It is best done at meal time in the evening at a well-lighted table in a quiet corner, or under a tree in the morning.
Now you don't even need to look under the table to get the football results - they can be beamed directly to your eyes.
Again and yet again the voice says you are at the head of the queue - by now you have spilt your coffee and the cat has been kicked away from under the table.
Both parties have proposals on the table to cover prescription-drugs charges under Medicare, the federal health programme for the elderly.
He stressed that all options were on the table, but that containment - leaving Iran to develop its programme under monitoring - was "not an option".
As a result, transmission constraints in the United States and the European Union are threatening to table large-scale wind and solar energy projects under development.
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The BOA has previously come under fire for setting what its critics consider an overly-optimistic a target of fourth place in the overall medal table at the London Olympics.
It is hard now to believe that in 1902 a tiger was shot under the billiard table (that the big cat emerged from a circus rather than virgin rain-forest, and was shot by a school headmaster, makes the story no less exotic).
He will receive a first-name-only invitation to have dinner at a staff table, which will then quietly appear under the door of one of the other Bobs, and no one will spot the substitution.
The table was a country type, made of half-planed boards, like the ties under railroad tracks.
Back at his tiny 9th story walk-up, entirely subsidized by the government, Tam stashes his paper trash in a corner under a table until he makes his weekly trek to the recycler.
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