This under-the-table system has two negative consequences. From Wordnik.com. [Haim Watzman: What Education Costs Us] Reference
ANNOUNCER: Bane says he and Rose did an under-the-table cash deal. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2006] Reference
There ` s usually some under-the-table agreement with the publicists. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2005] Reference
We gave nothing away with respect to principles or under-the-table deals. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2002] Reference
Or it could be a brilliant piece of under-the-table campaign skullduggery. From Wordnik.com. ["Dear Mr. Obama": The GOP's First Viral Video? [UPDATED]] Reference
And he proceeded to admit that the under-the-table bonus scheme was a lie. From Wordnik.com. [The Informant: A True Story] Reference
(An international judging committee will watch for under-the-table government aid.). From Wordnik.com. [Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon] Reference
Louise Hathcock made no more efforts to have an under-the-table deal with Buford Pusser. From Wordnik.com. [The Twelfth Of August -The life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser]
In Asia, money-laundering laws often are lax, and under-the-table transactions are common. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2001] Reference
They're more than happy to make some under-the-table "arrangements" if you catch my drift. From Wordnik.com. [Julie Farby: Obama's Rx For Health Care: Pull Plug On Insurance Companies, Not Grandma] Reference
But there are instances when government officials make under-the-table deal with oil suppliers. From Wordnik.com. [New gas-saving gadgets shelved to favor OPEC] Reference
I mean, for instance, forbidding under-the-table rebates and -- and other monopolistic practices. From Wordnik.com. [The Business of America] Reference
However, evidence suggested under-the-table sales amounting to millions of rands were still taking place. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
They were not more than four or five inches thick, but that is the ideal height for an under-the-table cushion. From Wordnik.com. [The House in Good Taste] Reference
They wouldn't know how to orchestrate an under-the-table payment if you drew them a map and provided a compass. From Wordnik.com. [I Told You So] Reference
Rather than encourage me to find full-time work, it was tempting to merely find an under-the-table job to milk both. From Wordnik.com. [Expanding E.I. Will Only Increase Fraud « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
It was a network of deals that operated in an under-the-table, informal manner where written laws had yet to be invented. From Wordnik.com. [The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century] Reference
There's a misguided tendency to blame the MOF for every under-the-table deal -- as if other power centers are progressive. From Wordnik.com. [Mighty Fall] Reference
It's a tad cynical, but this approach has allowed me to do some fantastic work with minimal resources lost under-the-table. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
So more and more people find other ways -- underhanded ways, under-the-table ways, connections -- to resolve these problems. From Wordnik.com. [Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic] Reference
Republicans receive under-the-table money from big corporations to pass laws to help their business even if it hurts America. From Wordnik.com. [Avlon: Blame poisonous politics for broken government] Reference
Hillary's mandate will just create more 'shadow' employment, i.e. under-the-table wages to avoid taxes/penalties/garnishments. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Edwards: "I Just Have More Confidence" In Hillary On Health Care] Reference
This behavior would continue on film and media through magazines and postcards as a pickled, skirt-chasing, under-the-table lush. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
I see him hampered by the bureaucracy, hobbled by the web of backroom deals and under-the-table favors that has defined governance. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Weber: Blood Will Out] Reference
So there was a lot of under-the-table dealings going on with people, with individuals and leaders who probably weren't very trustworthy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2009] Reference
Remember how the Republicans cut an under-the-table deal with the Iranians way back in 1980 to scupper Carter's chance at a second term?. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Explains Vote Against FISA Cave] Reference
The country hoped to show the world that it could form a clean, transparent government -- free of backroom deals and under-the-table payoffs. From Wordnik.com. [MOMENT OF GLORY?] Reference
In most industries, when money is exchanged under-the-table for services rendered and deny such deals publicly, it's considered payola, bribery. From Wordnik.com. [Dana Thomas: The Red Carpet and Luxury Brands: Selling the Dream] Reference
The lady walked gravely toward him, whereupon William again followed the under-the-table route, and finally flopped into a chair by his own desk. From Wordnik.com. [William Adolphus Turnpike] Reference
But the real story is that Chapman ` s extradition may actually be a part of a much, much larger, under-the-table agreement between the U.S. and Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2007] Reference
For those who swear by it to prosper, the sly-wink, under-the-table, knowing-nod means by which this happens means someone else is going to get screwed. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Doyle: Clout Gate] Reference
And this is the President who probably got Georgia into this mess in the first place by likely making under-the-table promises when they sent troops to Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Calls On United Nations To Condemn Russia's "Unacceptable" Aggression] Reference
Bribes, kickbacks and other under-the-table payments can add as much as 50% to operating costs in each country, according to the entrepreneurs we interviewed. From Wordnik.com. [In Emerging Markets, Know What] Reference
The under-the-table money was insurance so that the world's largest banana producer's fields and workers would be kept out of harm's way from gun-toting thugs. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Katovsky: "Clean Up in the Produce Aisle! -- We Have a Terror Spill"] Reference
Western Union is used by many scammers (Nigerian fraud) to send under-the-table money, either honestly earned, or earned by illicit practices, to their home countries. From Wordnik.com. [Xoom Raises $20 Million Series E] Reference
The economics of immigration reform are simple: moving illegal immigrants from our under-the-table economy to our above-the-table economy is smart fiscal policy for the nation. From Wordnik.com. [Comprehensive Immigration Reform to Create Jobs and Secure our Future] Reference
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