"They were wined and dined, because they were 'important,' " Wilson says.
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Wonnie wined and dined me and spoiled me like my dad used to.
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They wined and dined them, lured them to the clubs and emptied their wallets.
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She's been wined and dined at "Wolf of Wall Street–esque restaurants" with industry players.
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He wined and dined the envoys at the headquarters of the Workers' Party, no less.
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Please don't pity me when I say this, but I've never really been wined and dined.
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I went to the Argotec HQ in Turin, Italy to get wined and dined like an astronaut.
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Billy wined and dined me from the very first date with expensive meals and thoughtfully planned romantic outings.
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And then they have to send their right-hand man, this killer, over here to get wined and dined.
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He wined and dined her in high style in New York and Palo Alto, and came to Penn for visits.
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Van Dongen also earned a reputation as a gourmand who wined and dined top Republicans in Washington and New York.
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To persuade them to support the government, some euroskeptic Conservatives have been wined and dined, including at May's Downing Street office.
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Of course, because this classic "whodunit" is set in California's wine country, you'll also be wined and dined with fine fare.
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When doctors get wined and dined and gifted by pharma reps, they end up prescribing more-expensive drugs more often than generics.
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A spokeswoman for the super PAC told CNBC exclusively that Trump is set to be wined and dined by the group's leadership.
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Its makers took a herd of journalists to a Scottish castle and wined and dined them all in "support" of the game's release.
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He has wined and dined the chief executives of the world's largest tech companies, who in turn have vowed to invest billions in France.
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There, after being introduced to a beaming Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, they were wined and dined, and sang rowdy karaoke late into the night.
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Executives from Facebook, Twitter, Google and Apple wined and dined with the elected officials and regulators who are responsible for holding their companies to account.
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On Monday evening, Exxon's team wined and dined prospective customers and traders at a dinner attended by around 200 guests, according to multiple people who attended.
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The 4 power couples wined and dined with friends inside, and were all smiles until they stepped out ... where it was nothing but silence for paps.
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He wined and dined doctors, golfed with them and bought lunch for their entire staffs — all to promote pills often costing thousands of dollars a year.
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He has wined and dined a host of celebrities and presidents at his restaurant, including Frank Sinatra, Princess Margaret, Andy Warhol and former President Bill Clinton.
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In many instances, their company wined and dined doctors at fancy restaurants, took some on private jet trips and even provided some with prostitutes, one brother testified.
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The leadership of the veterans service organizations were from that group and were wined and dined by the VA. The VSOs were invested in the status quo.
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MORE befriended and wined and dined the most ruthless African dictators and overlooked their deplorable human rights and corruption records in the name of counter-terrorism cooperation.
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She travelled the world, fielded questions from some of the world's best-known interviewers, and whether she liked it or not was wined and dined in glamorous places.
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"I specifically hired John to go out and get me the blockbuster shows," she told me in 2014, describing how they wined and dined potential lenders in Europe.
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Space tourists could one day get an immersive astronaut experience, be wined and dined with incredible views of the Earth, or even play zero-gravity games like Quidditch.
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He challenged the Chinese leader with the possibility of tougher trade sanctions, but then wined and dined him in April at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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" Her lifestyle got in the way of healthy habits, saying it's easy to gain weight "if you travel a lot and you're wined and dined and you love holidays.
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The publisher flew him over, wined and dined him, and, having heard that he liked jazz, had a local musician—"Kenny W," Willems joked—play saxophone too close to him.
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On China, a great personal relationship and chocolate cake -- and a nixed trade deal Early in his presidency, Trump wined and dined the Chinese leader at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
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Every once in a while a larger label will show up and suggest working together, which we are happy to entertain and Career Suicide is always available to be wined and dined.
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"The outspoken members of the Consumer Advisory Board seem more concerned about protecting their taxpayer funded junkets to Washington, D.C., and being wined and dined by the Bureau than protecting consumers," Czwartacki said.
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One lucky couple chosen at random will be exclusively wined and dined under the ceiling constellations of an empty Grand Central Terminal, with a Michelin-starred meal and a whole host of lavish trimmings.
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Conflicts of interest Also on Friday, the Washington Post reported that about 100 foreign diplomats were wined and dined at the junior ballroom of the new Trump International Hotel in D.C. earlier this week.
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Italy's Prime Minister will be wined and dined by the Obama family to a live soundtrack provided by one of America's biggest pop stars at an upcoming state dinner, the First Lady revealed through Snapchat Wednesday.
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Guests wined and dined — and dug deep into their wallets — as races were called, with house-popped parmesan truffle popcorn being offered for $15, and a dozen prime cheeseburger sliders setting hungry political junkies back $55.
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Renee Baker, Chicago, IL This decision wasn't simple, but it was symbolic I am 100% against Amazon being "wined and dined" by cities across the USofA, so NYC refusing Amazon's HQ is a win in my mind.
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As he wined and dined African leaders in Sochi, twin Tu-160 nuclear capable bombers touched down at a military airport outside Pretoria, South Africa -- a symbolic power-play that is likely a sign of things to come.
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Soon after the new leadership board's first meeting in Paris in April, in which Mr. Saikawa and executives of Nissan and Mitsubishi were wined and dined at a dinner atop Renault's flagship showroom on the Champs-Élysées, tensions flared.
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The chairman of Anbang, Wu Xiaohui, who wined and dined Jared Kushner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in November, serving $2,100-a-bottle Château Lafite Rothschild, married the granddaughter of Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader who transformed China's economy.
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Members from the boards of directors and executive committees of Nissan and Mitsubishi were wined and dined the night before at a rare dinner with their Renault counterparts in a restaurant atop Renault's flagship showroom on the Champs-Élysées.
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You may not be able to grab a beer with Bill Clinton or sit down for supper with the Obamas, but you can certainly visit establishments where the country's Commanders-in-Chief have wined and dined over the years.
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BAR, Montenegro (Reuters) - Wanted - a wealthy new owner for Jadranka, the 41-year-old yacht on which Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito once wined and dined celebrities and dignitaries, but which has become too costly for the Montenegrin government to maintain.
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Paula just filed docs -- obtained by TMZ -- alleging Robin and his attorney initiated a bunch of back-channel communication with the Department of Children and Family Services staff ... including a dinner where Robin allegedly wined and dined a case worker.
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The Libyan Investment Authority said that Mr. Kabbaj wined and dined members of the fund's staff on "training" trips to London, which included accommodations in a stylish hotel and frequent expensive meals out at many of London's best-known restaurants.
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SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - Accompanied by his wife, greeted by honor guards, and entertained at banquets, Kim Jong Un made his international debut as North Korea's leader by being wined and dined in the capital of the world's most populous country.
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While the fugitive reportedly wined-and-dined over the New Year&aposs holiday, investigators around the world raced to piece together how, exactly, Ghosn made it out of Japan despite constant surveillance and severe restrictions as part of his bail agreement.
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It said that in the second incident, Parneros allegedly pulled the employee toward him so their faces touched, and as she tried to pull away he said she seemed like someone who "would put out" if he "wined and dined" her.
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It's kind of a herd mentality, and I was interested in public service, but the law firms came up — the University of Michigan — to interview, and they flew you back, and they wined and dined you, and they made you feel special.
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Last month Trump was wined and dined at the home of powerful Washington, D.C., attorney C. Boyden Gray along with Dallas financier Roy Bailey, the national finance chairman for America First Action, and oil tycoon Harold Hamm, board member of America First Policies.
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But some local elections officials say they prefer them—sometimes because they've been wined-and-dined by the vendors (as 18 county elections officials in Pennsylvania were recently outed as doing), sometimes because they think the touchscreen machines will make things easier.
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As nominees like Ryan Gosling, Amy Adams and Octavia Spencer come together at the 63rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, they can expect to be wined and dined throughout the ceremony and at the PEOPLE and Entertainment Industry Foundation's Post-Awards Gala.
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The LIA made much of the fact that Goldman had wined and dined its employees, plying them with gifts such as iPods, as well as offering a prestigious internship to Haitem Zarti, the younger brother of Mustafa Zarti, a key decision-maker at the fund.
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And Trump has been a reliable rubber stamp for the "globalist" wing of the Republican Party, a switch exemplified by his signing of a tax reform bill that benefited the very 1 percent (including foreign shareholders) who will be wined and dined at Davos.
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Here are a few of the highlights, revealed through court documents and testimony at the trial: Insys's southeast regional sales rep Joe Rowan peddled perks to a doctor, Bart Gatz, who, while being wined and dined by the company, prescribed 1,010 units of Subsys.
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Here are a few of the highlights, revealed through court documents and testimony at the trial: Insys's southeast regional sales rep Joe Rowan peddled perks to a doctor, Bart Gatz, who, while being wined and dined by the company, prescribed 303,010 units of Subsys.
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It is the not the first boardroom drama involving Okada, who was ousted as a director of U.S. casino operator Wynn Resorts in 2012 based on allegations by Wynn's board that he had wined and dined Philippine gaming officials in possible violation of U.S. anti-bribery laws.
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Despite being wined and dined over the coming months — some labels would "make a point to say, 'This is a very expensive restaurant,'" she said — Ms. Dacus ultimately went with Matador, a late entry in the sweepstakes, whose executives had approached after seeing her live, not online.
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Mr. Zuckerberg had wined and dined Chinese politicians, publicly showed off his newly acquired Chinese-language skills — a moment that set the internet abuzz — and talked with a potential Chinese partner about pushing the social network into the market, according to a person familiar with the talks who declined to be named because the discussions were confidential.
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Over the past few months alone, internal EPA teams have failed to identify any credible threats that would justify Pruitt's $3 million budget for 24/7 security and expensive flights, the agency has grown increasingly authoritarian and hostile to climate science, and Pruitt reportedly wined and dined a Catholic cardinal accused of sexual abuse because they both were climate change skeptics.
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Employees of large American corporations traveling to countries like China are often targets for information theft because their devices can be hacked remotely and because they can speak too revealingly of their work while being wined and dined, said Joseph S. Campbell, the former head of the F.B.I.'s criminal investigative division who is now a director at Navigant Consulting.
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Foster, Patrick (28 January 2006)."How young Cameron wined and dined with the right sort". The Times (London). Retrieved 6 November 2006.
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The culprits were greeted with pleasant words and with professional diplomacy when they arrived at New Carthage and were invited to their quarters to be wined and dined into the night.
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Trickett thus became the first Australian World Champion in any sport. Additionally, he collected £400 in stake money. Upon his return to Sydney, 25,000 people greeted him and he was wined and dined all around the state.
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It was teeming with ambitious, street-smart men, > many who appear to have been very successful drug dealers on the outside, > and some of whom possess business instincts as sharp as those of the CEOs > who wined and dined me six months before.
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After being wined and dined by Kyle, Portman "opens her wormhole", sending Standish back to Plymouth, where he vanquishes the Indians. Back on Earth, Standish's campaign against the Indians is related in another History TV special, which also adds the new theory that the first Thanksgiving was haunted, much to Kyle's outrage.
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It was his first visit to Germany. His flight took him through the Lordship of Grumbach in 1714, where he was received by the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves and taken to the Schönbornerhof. There he was wined and dined in kingly fashion. At the table, the Count's young son was supposed to wait on this high-ranking guest.
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Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin are in Paris. Modesty is being wined and dined by René Vaubois, head of the Deuxième Bureau (the French Intelligence Service), on a floating restaurant on the Seine. René asks Modesty for advice regarding a new protection racket. High-level people worldwide are receiving death threats, and those who don't pay end up dead.
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During aplecs advocating "religious unity consubstantial with national unity",MacClancy 2000, p. 148 since 1959 he organized "marchas al Valle de los Caídos", an initiative providing opportunity to fraternize with the FalangistsMartorell Pérez 2014, p. 149 and himself frequently wined and dined with the Movimiento officials,Vázquez de Prada 2016, p. 107 even though he was suspicious about genuine intentions of the regime.e.g.
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Walter creates a statue of Alice which, once unveiled, so impresses Brock that he throws a party at the Yellow Door in Walter's honor. Costumed as a carnival fool, Walter is wined and dined to excess. After the party, Walter later stumbles towards his apartment. Still drunk, he beheads a factory worker with his own buzzsaw to create a bust.
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Once unveiled, the statue of Alice renders them awestruck and Carla is so pleased that she kisses Walter.Brock is so impressed, he throws a party at the Yellow Door in Walter's honor. Costumed as a carnival fool, Walter is wined and dined to excess. Leonard keeps an eye on him, worried that he will make some mistake that will blow this deal.
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The only extra he didn't take was the High Performance 289 engine – it carried a shorter warranty period. Tucker traveled to Dearborn, Michigan, where Ford wined and dined him in the company of executives such as Lee Iacocca and Don Frey. On March 2, 1966, Tucker's loaded '66 Mustang convertible rolled off the line amid fanfare and excitement. Capt. Tucker posed for photos with his new Silver Frost 1966 Mustang convertible.
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Soon, Jo finds herself embroiled in a hot-and-heavy affair with rich, American playboy Dean Turner (Craig Gardner) — much to Mary's chagrin. While Jo is being wined and dined, Mary first finds herself threatened by heavy breathing phone calls — and then by menacing knocks at the door. Even her neighbor, Dr. Stuart (George Korelin), turns up with his "trusty .38 Special" to have a face-down with the attacker — but by then, he's vanished.
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While his fellow shipmates were treated harshly and confined aboard the Asia, Campbell wined and dined with various captains on the social circuit of Montevideo.Pack, S (1964), p. 214 All four Wager survivors departed for Spain in the Asia at the end of October 1745, but the passage was not without incident. Having been at sea three days, eleven Indian crew on board mutinied against their barbaric treatment by the Spanish officers.
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In late 1932, he arrived by ship at Matadi. After spending several months visiting previously unseen places in the western Congo, he went to Léopoldville in January, 1933. There he was wined and dined by his old acquaintances until he wrote home complaining that he had no time to work.Léon Guebels, Académie royale des sciences d'Outre mer Online He eventually went upriver for several weeks, meeting with local dignitaries, both native and colonial.
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Two days later, on the 7th, Barrett recorded "Milky Way", "Millionaire", before being rounded off with overdubs for "Rats". "Millionaire" was originally titled "She Was a Millionaire", and was originally recorded by Pink Floyd. Barrett recorded two attempts at a backing track before abandoning it, and adding vocals. Yet another break in recording occurred, until 14 July, where Barrett recorded several takes of "Effervescing Elephant", while numerous overdubs were added to Barrett's "Wined and Dined" demo by Gilmour.
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The song features a childlike section ("No care / No no"). The song segues into "I Never Lied to You" with the aid of Wright's organ. "I Never Lied to You" is the final of three songs on the album which lyrics point to anguish ("It's been so hard to bear with you not there"). "Wined and Dined" dated from Barrett's Cambridge days, and is about the relationship between Barrett and his then-girlfriend, Gayla Pinion, a model from Cambridge.
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The case went before James Forbes, Sheriff-Substitute of Aberdeenshire, acting as arbiter. It seems that the defendants wined and dined Forbes generously ahead of his final deliberations and he exonerated them. The decree was read out at the mercat cross the next day. However, the case was referred to the Court of Session in Edinburgh, and after Williamson produced hard evidence of the defendants' involvement, the Court reversed the Sheriff- Substitute's decision in December 1763.
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While in Kansas City, Tyner worked on the regional war labor board. She also taught law at Washburn University. Tyner moved to Juneau, Alaska in 1944 as an assistant enforcement attorney in the Office of Price Administration and traveled extensively throughout the state as part of her duties. When Tyner visited in Anchorage in 1945 to explore what her prospects might be as an attorney, members of the bar association "wined and dined" her in an effort to lure her to the community.
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Unfortunately, for Litif, bartender Robert Conrad was working that night and witnessed the crime. Shortly thereafter, Conrad disappeared. According to Kevin Weeks, > Conrad, who was about fifty, was a nervous wreck over what he had seen, so > Louie wined and dined him in Las Vegas. Then he took him up to a little > place he had in Nova Scotia, where he promised to hide him until everything > blew over, assuring him that everything would be alright and that there was > nothing to worry about.
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This artistic camp was used by W.W. Durant as a showcase, as he wined and dined railroad tycoons, selling them on the idea of his building a camp for each of them. In 1895 W.W. Durant sold the camp to Collis P. Huntington (builder of the western half of the Transcontinental Railroad) in partial repayment of a debt. In 1949 Archer Huntington gave the camp to SUNY Cortland, to be used for education and never to be turned over to the state. In 1938, the family provided the land for the Raquette Lake Chapel in the village for $1.
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On various occasions, Barrett would "spy" on the band as they recorded the album. Again, Barrett recorded some work to a song, "Wolfpack", on the 3rd, before the sessions were postponed until 5 June, this time due to Gilmour and Wright going on tour in the US with Pink Floyd. On the session of 5 June, Barrett managed to record an unknown number of two-track demos for three songs: "Rats", "Wined and Dined", and "Birdie Hop". The "Rats" demo recorded here, became the basis for the album master, and would later be overdubbed by musicians, despite the changing tempos.
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Bond is to be wined and dined, lectured on the aesthetics of power, and finally tortured by his chief enemy'.Amis, Kingsley, The James Bond Dossier Jonathan Cape, 1965, p.21 Earlier, Amis had discussed the matter of Bond's correct designation: 'It's inaccurate, of course, to describe James Bond as a spy, in the strict sense of one who steals or buys or smuggles the secrets of foreign powers ... Bond's claims to be considered a counter-spy, one who operates against the agents of unfriendly powers, are rather more substantial'.Amis, Kingsley, The James Bond Dossier Jonathan Cape, 1965, p.
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In the late 1960s and 1970s she produced and choreographed fashion shows around the world. The 10 July 1954 issue of Picture Show magazine featured "The Life Story of Patricia Laffan", which included these facts: Laffan had a piece printed in Winter Pie -- Miscellany for Men & Women ( A Pie Pocket Special), published in October 1947. It was entitled "Penicillin and Paris" and was a breezy account of her "first weekend in Paris," under doctor's orders to take vitamins and a holiday. She was "wined and dined on the right bank and on the left" and broadcast (and sang Night and Day with a large band) over Radiodiffusion Francaise.
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Sigmaringen Castle, from the south View from the north east The Sigmaringen enclave was the exiled remnant of France's Nazi-sympathizing Vichy government which had to flee to Germany during the Liberation of France near the end of World War II in order to avoid capture by the advancing Allied Powers of World War II. They were allocated the requisitioned Sigmaringen Castle as the seat of their government-in-exile. The puppet government occupied the castle for seven months with nothing to govern, Pétain keeping to himself, while the others wined and dined on unlimited food and drink, and local residents faced wartime rationing.
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Hartnett was named by City University London in July 2010 as the most "wined and dined" civil servant in Britain, having been treated to corporate hospitality 107 times over a period of three years. He stated that his approach to tax disputes with large corporations was "handling disputes in a non-confrontational way and collaborating with customers wherever possible". Harnett claims that this approach secured larger settlements of tax collected faster and more cheaply than if HMRC had taken the taxpayers to court, but this is disputed by Private Eye, who cite particular deals made by Harnett including the arrangement with Vodafone that lost the exchequer approximately £6 billion.
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While Phua Chu Kang is busy with construction, he misses his anniversary dinner with Rosie Phua, who is wined and dined by Lim instead. At his luxurious home, Lim reveals that he has been siphoning the majority of funds from phone-in donations to the nursing home for his personal use. Shocked and guilty, Rosie Phua attempts to convince Phua Chu Kang to stop work to no avail. Meanwhile, Ah Ma reveals that the elderly man she has been looking after is Phua Chu Kang's grandfather, Ah Kong, who abandoned Phua Chu Kang in the belief that he would bring the family bad luck.
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2 Bond would later testify that he had been "wined and dined" by Wright company officials; one of those occasions was the night before Bond fired four AAF engine inspectors another AAF inspector had described as "troublemakers." In 1944, three Army officers, Lt. Col. Frank Constantine Greulich of Detroit, former chief inspection officer for the material command, Major Walter A. Ryan of Detroit, former central states inspection officer, and Major William Bruckmann, a former Cincinnati brewer and resident Army inspections officer at the Wright plant in Lockland were charged with neglect of duty, conspiracy, and giving false testimony in a general court martial.Hinton, Harold B., Air Victory: the men and the machines, New York: Harper & Bros.
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Most Catholics retreated to relative isolation from a popular Protestant mainstream, and Catholicism in England in this period was politically, if not socially, invisible to history. However, there were exceptions. Alexander Pope, owing to his literary popularity, was one memorable English Catholic of the 18th century. Other memorable Catholics were three remarkable members of the Catholic gentry: Baron Petre (who wined and dined George III and Queen Charlotte at Thorndon Hall), Thomas Weld the bibliophile, (and friend of George III) who in 1794 donated his Stonyhurst estate to the Jesuits to establish a college, along with 30 acres of land, and the Duke of Norfolk, the Premier Duke in the peerage of England and as Earl of Arundel, the Premier Earl.
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In the meantime, Sukarno eventually divorced Inggit, who refused to accept her husband's wish for polygamy. She was provided with a house in Bandung and a pension for the rest of her life. In 1943, he married Fatmawati. They lived in a house in Jalan Pegangsaan Timur No. 56, confiscated from its previous Dutch owners and presented to Sukarno by the Japanese. This house would later be the venue of the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence in 1945. On 10 November 1943 Sukarno and Hatta were sent on a 17-day tour of Japan, where they were decorated by Emperor Hirohito and wined and dined in the house of Prime Minister Hideki Tojo in Tokyo. On 7 September 1944, with the war going badly for the Japanese, Prime Minister Kuniaki Koiso promised independence for Indonesia, although no date was set.
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The visiting Duke of Württemberg was wined and dined during a visit in 1655: the tiny independent city-state was entirely surrounded by Württemberg territory and good relations with the dukes were important. The population of Giengen, which has stood at close to 2000 on the eve of the War in 1618, was back to 1200 in 1651 and to 1700 in 1671. From the year of the fire to 1672, some 206 individuals - 95 from the area, 20 from Ulm, 29 from Bavaria and 62 from the rest of the Empire - have purchased Giengen's citizenship (Bürgerrecht). A new tax code adopted by the Town Council in 1677 caused considerable popular discontent and following a complaint to the Aulic Council, an imperial commission composed of the count of Oëttingen and members of the Town Council of Ulm, Giengen's powerful neighbor to the south, ruled that the guilds should be involved in the decision process on taxation.
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The differences between two generations could be quite big with one having to painstakingly explain to the other how everything worked and being frustrated when they seemed unable to grasp basic essentials: like Robin using the internet to order sandwiches and get Alex's drycleaning done without having to do it himself and denying Alex the pleasure of demeaning him in the process. When the dot-com bubble burst, Alex finally got the opportunity to assign such tasks to Robin, who eventually left the bank. Alex was later asked to contact the head of a start-up hedge fund who, instead of being wined and dined, would be quite satisfied with sandwiches in his office: the potential client was Robin, who sent Alex out to get the sandwiches. As a result of the credit crunch, Robin's business went bust in early 2009 and he called on Alex for a possible job back at Megabank.
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Among the celebrities and power brokers who wined and dined there during its original run were entertainers such as Rosemary Clooney, Vic Damone and Bob Hope, as well as the casino mogul Steve Wynn and two former Governors of New Jersey, James Florio and Christine Todd Whitman. However it would be one specific mover and shaker later to be fictionalized in the HBO megahit series Boardwalk Empire, the Atlantic City power boss and racketeer, Enoch "Nucky" Johnson who would hold forth in an era in which then when portrayed would bring the Knife and Fork Inn newfound fame. Although Babette's Supper Club was not around in the earliest days of Prohibition as depicted in the aforementioned series, the Knife & Fork would have been the closest establishment to mirror the scenes which take place in Babette's on the show at that time and indeed it was chosen to portray the other legendary long gone establishment in the series. In a later season of Boardwalk Empire, the Knife & Fork itself was mentioned and a facsimile was recreated for a major scene in the show.
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The actual decision to occupy might have been precipitated by an unfounded report that the French, who were said to have been surveying the area for some time, had dispatched a frigate from Réunion to annex the island..Contemporary French archives indicate that neither the French government nor the French navy showed interest in Perim. Nevertheless, the episode gave birth to a Royal Navy urban legend according to which during the frigate's stopover in Aden, the French captain and officials were wined and dined until they were too intoxicated to set sail, giving time to the British to quickly dispatch a vessel to Perim to hoist the British flag. C. R. Low, History of the Indian Navy (1613-1863), Volume 2, p. 385-386. The declared reason for the occupation, however, was the urgent need to erect a lighthouse at the entrance of the notoriously dangerous Bab el Mandeb and indeed, after much bickering about the location and other factors, an 11-meter high lighthouse was finally built and inaugurated on 1 April 1861. Despite the lighthouse's operation, the treacherous waters around Perim continued to claim many vessels..Peter Pickering & Ingleby Jefferson (2012), Perim Lighthouse, section of Perim Island - The Last Colonial Outpost.
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