Candidates have been flying around the country spending as much time on the chardonnay-and-chicken fund-raising circuit as campaigning.
Regarding Matt Bai's article on President Obama, I am thankful we have a president who realizes that robocalls and speaking at rubber-chicken fund-raisers are not consistent with the office of leader of the free world.
NO one who ever attended a Jeffrey Deitch party — whether the mosh-pit street fair spun out of the Shepard Fairey show that marked his New York farewell in May 2010 or the annual Art Parade he sponsored in SoHo, which returned to the increasingly suburbanized streets of downtown elements of living theater-style revelry — would mistake them for the usual rubber-chicken fund-raisers.
In a project on the biodiversity of chickens funded by the European Commission (EC), eight laboratories collaborated to assess the genetic variation within and between 52 populations from a wide range of chicken types.
TRENTON, Feb. 27 - Of all the jobs in New Jersey politics, one of the most demanding may well be the position of personal driver -- the behind-the-wheel assistant who must deliver the candidate on time and without incident to Main Street parades, chicken dinner fund-raisers, back-room meetings and other stops in between.
NOBELITY PROJECT ARTISTS AND FILMMAKERS DINNER Here's something you rarely find on the rubber-chicken-dinner fund-raising circuit: Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen, Joe Ely and Ray Benson sitting side by side, harmonizing "On the Road Again".
He describes the £5m recently added to dwindling maintenance funds as "chicken feed" and says that if farmers are to store water on their land, they will need to be paid for the service, as happens in Germany.
Republicans like Ryan and Dent have never been interested in playing chicken with government-funding deadlines, so their comments aren't too surprising.
For four years in a row, Yonkers officials have played chicken with school funding, and now -- for the fourth year in a row -- state officials seem to have blinked.
All told, the federal government gave $123 billion in tax incentives to corporations in 2010, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, with breaks for groups and people as diverse as Nascar track owners, mohair producers, hedge fund managers, chicken farmers, automakers and oil companies.
In 2002, when mortgage-backed securities were being touted as low risk and fat yield, FORBES called it a game of chicken: "Banks and hedge funds aren't the only gamblers in these dicey securities.
