Mandela later as president used the estate to wine and dine the likes of Bill Clinton and Queen Elizabeth II.

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In some cases, the banking industry has used its financial power to wine and dine college officials, lavishing gifts, golf trips and other perks to keep them in line.

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Instead of sending waves of sales people out to wine and dine big company financial and IT executives, EnterpriseDB makes it easy for companies to download its software and work with it.

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Not pension officials, to be sure, but we here at Forbes have documented a pervasive culture of pay-to-play in the securities class-action bar, in which lawyers wine and dine union and government pension officials to get in on obscenely lucrative business of settling securities lawsuits.

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