Turkey, Nasr concludes, is the launching pad for China's pivot west as it seeks "to poach on the lucrative economic relations" between the United States and the European Union, "and to push into western Asia".
Meanwhile, the British government's objective is to increase its lucrative trade relations by projecting a "business as usual" image and keeping quiet about the appalling human rights abuses.
A half-hour later, at the news conference, he declined to criticize his own chief media adviser, Carter Eskew, who, The Washington Post disclosed today, tried last year to obtain the pharmaceutical industry's lucrative public relations contract to help fight legislation like Mr. Gore's own proposal for a Medicare prescription drug benefit.
The gold standard was Johnson & Johnson, whose deft maneuvering, after seven people died from ingesting cyanide-laced Extra Strength Tylenol, helped create a new and lucrative subset of public relations known as crisis management, which was poised, as Time put it in 1986, to become "the new corporate discipline".
But his measured tone turned indignant when the subject turned to Britain — and what Rajab considers to be London's abandonment of the Bahraini people, in favor of cushy relations and lucrative arms deals with moneyed Gulf monarchs.
Pietersen's interest in the lucrative Twenty20 tournament frequently strained relations with the England and Wales Cricket Board, although central contracts now contain leeway for IPL participation, with a cut-off this year of 13 May.
But the three Tammany appointees to the city's four-year-old Board of Electrical Control had been greedily awarding lucrative contracts to friends and relations who failed to actually do the work of burying the wires.
In past decades, relations were shaped by both lucrative business deals and a need to do penance for the horrors inflicted in World War II.
The world's largest public relations firm is ending its lucrative relationship with America's powerful oil lobby – after more than a decade and at least $327m in billings.
Xi hopes to leverage this and previous warm relations with the nation to secure lucrative contracts going forward.
