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.
As long as the Islamic Republic can sell oil at high prices, Iran's gravy train will trundle on.
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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.
With 65 percent of voters saying yes to this proposal, this is a good sign that the bureaucrat gravy train may finally be slowing down.
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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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To answer the question I posed at the start of this article Is the Internet shopping gravy train over for Amazon, eBay and others?
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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.
As the takers sold their votes they empowered the government, so now Washington can control of their lives as long as the gravy train keeps rolling.
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Right now, the temptation will be great to turn on each other and then look for ways to climb back onto the gravy train that Washington has become.
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?).
It is doubly unfortunate that clearing the way for Soviet access to this gravy train has meant the abandonment of a key element of trade and human rights policy.
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United States is attempting to jeopardize their gravy train.
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.
But after the state hits rock bottom, after the civil servants and pensioners are thrown off the gravy train, after the tourist industry evaporates and drives the rapidly shrinking economy into the abyss what then?
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