All they do is to allow folks who are already well-off and well-connected game the system.
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Internships and work placements can provide much richer pickings for young people from well-educated, well-connected families.
While Mr Moi was president, the wealthy bought justice and the well-connected got it free.
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Local people are well aware of the involvement of well-connected businessmen in the new hotels.
Dolphin's boss, Marcelo Mindlin, is well-connected with the government, although many of his investors are foreigners.
In California, well-connected farmers grow rice in the desert, even as Los Angeles begs for water.
And when a well-connected property developer took control of the site, it demolished the theatre in 2008.
The guilds used their growing power to limit access to London's markets to the well-connected and well-trained.
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The wealthy and well-connected people on Wall Street, fine citizens and generous donors, usually get their way.
Efes, Turkey's best-selling beer, has started production in Moscow, and well-connected Russian-owned brewers have also been expanding.
The campaign brought 400 well-connected friends and supporters to Boston, where they hit the phones for him.
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The well-connected Mr Daschle will spearhead reform as head of the Department of Health and Human Services.
"Suharto doesn't seem to grasp how difficult and dire the situation really is, " says a well-connected academic.
The well-connected Nguyen (his father-in-law is Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung) helped to mold VinaGame from the start.
They can cut spending in a smart way, and close wasteful tax loopholes for the well-off and well-connected.
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Small growers are squeezing out both importers and the well-connected, often Vietnamese, gangs that once dominated domestic production.
These obstacles to doing business are chasing big companies overseas and preventing small outfits from challenging well-connected tycoons.
He's a smart, engaging and well-connected guy, '' says Richard Meislin, the Times' associate managing editor for Internet publishing.
The one he chose, a well -connected, attractive young lady, said she was too busy with published authors.
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Every well-connected Catholic in the nation's capital has been working all their political contacts to snag an invite.
He still needed a well-connected player to make a go of computer manufacturing.
In Indonesia, state-owned stock brokerages routinely reserve shares in new issues for the well-connected, usually relations of President Suharto.
Moreover, large farmers are often well-connected and spend more time lobbying for special favours than doing the hard work.
What about the war on unions and the unlimited favors for the well-connected?
They also admit well-connected Cubans, like a woman whom we will call Alba.
"You can plan all you want, but you can't get the same experience as with a well-connected guide, " says Kessler.
In mid-2006 a well-connected Vietnamese-American invited Mr Trung to America, where he introduced him to the then president, George Bush.
We also need to make sure that we're going to ask the wealthy and the well-connected to make some sacrifices, too.
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The former leader of Coventry City Council, Conservative councillor Ken Taylor, said the "well-connected" businessman would have to declare an interest.
If the historically well-connected Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet is right, the upgrade path will go further back -- much further.
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