Low-level cadres falsified grain estimates, and higher-level officials lied to curry favor in Beijing.
It uses feckless, incompetent managers who remove those who criticize and retain those who curry favor.
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Occasionally, when politicians see opportunity to curry favor and tar opponents, they manufacture sturm und drang.
Lockheed, Comcast and the high-tech association all said their moves weren't made to curry favor with Democrats.
Additionally, prosecutors contemplating a transition to a law firm may attempt to curry favor with a prospective employer.
These programs were seen as a priority for women, and the politicians wanted to curry favor with them.
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If Brodsky was seeking to curry favor with Shukhman, it doesn't appear to have satisfied Axiom co-owner Wang.
Then there is the power wielded by the gambling industry, which uses lobbying and campaign donations to curry favor.
Employees generally seek to curry favor with their employers, not piss them off.
Although these coaches may have done this to curry favor with management, they cannot perform their job without players.
Their heads all want to get promoted or curry favor with senior leadership.
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It seems subjective students who curry favor with career staffers may get the plum opportunities but schools insist they don't play favorites.
Unfortunately for Mr. Bush, the effort to curry favor with Islamists may not only be bad for the national security.
Regulators feared that fund groups might compromise investors' interests to curry favor with large companies, whose retirement plans they also manage.
Politicians who had viewed squatters merely as common criminals began to see an opportunity to curry favor with these new constituents.
The traditional system allows investment bankers to use IPO shares to curry favor--legally or illegally--by dispensing shares to individuals or institutions.
Bidzina Ivanishvili, who wants to become prime minister of Georgia, renounced both his Russian and French citizenships to curry favor with voters.
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Eager to curry favor with female customers, the investment community and the press, big companies now are looking to turn the tide.
They basically use it to buy votes, curry favor, and get rich.
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Conferences, at least, bear the patina of educational merit and an opportunity to curry favor with the officials who help pick legal counsel.
These demands are calculated to check U.S. latitude for unilateral action and to curry favor with Arab and other audiences at American expense.
Managers pay to sponsor and attend these conferences so they can meet pension clients of the consultant and curry favor with the consultant.
Since Obama took office, he has been abandoning one US ally after another while seeking to curry favor with one US adversary after another.
Although this may appeal to lawyers and lobbyists, again consumers will lose as competition to curry favor with antitrust officials replaces competition to gain customers.
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On strategic issues, Sadadinov(ph) is worried that Azerbaijan might try to curry favor with Washington by providing bases for a potential attack on neighboring Iran.
His obsequious attempts to curry favor with the Arabs and Iran have been even more disturbing to Israelis than his refusal to visit the country.
Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, says the parties are crafting strategies to curry favor with the public to gain a political advantage.
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Cawley's former Axiom partners attempted to curry favor in another, more sinister, way, he asserts in new claims that are based on documents he uncovered in his lawsuit.
The revamp reflects a big push to prod users to spend more time on the site and curry favor with brands hoping to be noticed by Facebook's users.
At the White House before the ceremony, Bush laughed at a question from a reporter who asked whether the dedication ceremony was meant to curry favor with Sen.
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