In May 2008 Eved orchestrated a one-week pharmaceutical sales-training retreat for which it arranged transportation for 4,000 reps, secured dinner reservations at 50 restaurants and hired a balloon company, a florist and a ticket broker who corralled seats at a rooftop party across from Wrigley Field in full view of a Cubs game.
What's really worth a billionaire's cash these days is someone who will take care of less grandiose but arguably more bothersome tasks, like securing dinner reservations at hard-to-get-into restaurants or finding a way into the most chic Fashion Week show.
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In preparing for his IPO, Baazov, then 29, secured a dinner meeting with former NATO commander and presidential candidate General Wesley Clark, who was a proponent of gambling-generated tax revenue, particularly in small countries.
"I have secured financing.
A confidence trickster, aware of the mystique surrounding Kubrick (who was actually quite often photographed, and highly recognisable) was passing himself off as the great director, securing dinners, drinks and sexual favours.
It is about his dinner parties, his policy unit". Earlier, Maude insisted the Tories would not disclose details of private meetings between Cameron and party donors in the wake of claims by Cruddas that large cash payments could secure intimate dinners with the prime minister.
The pinnacle of absurdity was reached when Wim Kok, the Dutch prime minister, got wind of the dinner and secured a last-minute invitation too, arriving breathlessly 40 minutes into the meal.
