Desperate to maintain its new subscribers in the face of quasi-governmental favoritism, Escortnet decided to challenge TurNet by offering its subscribers a faster, toll-free route to the net via a direct satellite uplink to the Internet 'backbone' in the United States that put Escortnet outside of TurNet (and thus Turktelekom's) control.
Our family decided long ago that we wanted to avoid any perception of favoritism.
To avoid any appearance of favoritism, Mr. Cunningham said that he and Mr. Suozzi had already decided that the county would not hire Meyer, Suozzi for any of the county's legal work.
After noticing in a previous study that youngsters seemed to play favoritism based off of the physical characteristics of Sommerville's multiracial staff, the research team decided to further investigate the behavior.
Today, saying that he wanted to erase any perception of favoritism toward the Tomasso Group, the governor told reporters that he was prepared to pay more for the three rentals of Tomasso vacation homes if the Ethics Commission decided it was appropriate.
But in March, Mr. Hevesi decided to retreat, approving 15 of the 17 contracts, and refusing to approve only the two Maximus proposals, which were by far the largest and in which he said he had found the most widespread evidence of "corruption, favoritism and cronyism".
"In the old days, Jordan was built on favoritism something we call 'wasta,' political and business mafias and corruption," the king says, sitting in the living room of his large, heavily guarded home in a suburb of Amman (he decided to forgo a palace).
Deciding who should get what without showing favoritism, hurting someone's feelings or causing a feud can be difficult, even for close-knit families who enter the process with the best of intentions.
But it is an inadequate antidote given the possibility of favoritism when officials below his level decide on economic assistance, filming permits or other discretionary favors the Disney Company might seek.
Example: It ranks 59th on the basis of executives' answers to the question "To what extent do government officials in your country show favoritism to well-connected firms and individuals when deciding upon policies and contracts?" Crony capitalism used to be what Americans complained about in Asia.
A furor over political meddling in grants for stem cell research in Italy has erupted into a broad protest about favoritism and the lack of peer review in deciding who receives national science funding.
