Agents (ie, managers) were feathering their own nests rather than serving the interests of their principals (shareholders).
Its ranks include a motley bunch of party cronies and has-beens whose own record of fiddling expenses, feathering nests and failing to turn up for work has made it an object of contempt.
Given current outrage at MPs feathering family nests with taxpayers' funds, voters may not take kindly to such dynastic succession.
OVER the past decade, American companies have tried hard to find ways to discourage senior managers from feathering their nests at the expense of their shareholders.
One non-partisan group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, claims that Mr Pombo, a DeLay protégé, is one of the 13 most corrupt members of Congress, guilty of everything from peddling his influence as chairman of the House Resources Committee to feathering the family nest.
This is the only time, though, that tests to the highest scientific standard, that of randomised double-blindness on several hundred people, have demonstrated it beyond doubt for advanced melanoma.In this section Three steps forward… For the birds Feathering the Falcon's nest ReprintsNor was this the only good news from the meeting.
Its shiny coat is straight and flat, with feathering on the ears, legs, chest, belly, and tail; originally red and white, solid mahogany or chestnut brown is now preferred.
The distillers resisted the tax by attacking (often tarring and feathering) federal revenue officers who attempted to collect it.
The Welsh springer spaniel, known since at least the 14th century, is somewhat smaller than the English; its flat coat is always red-brown and white, with feathering on the chest, legs, and belly.
