Uechtritz was behind the network's successful Anzac specials and may return for special projects.
The couple's three children, who are grown, still return for special occasions and holidays.
Other countries signed the Pact in return for special concessions granted by Germany.
The company's records were subpoenaed last year by the New York attorney general's office, which is investigating the state's wind industry to determine whether promoters improperly sought land-use agreements from officials in return for special benefits.
Fertik says those existing products, which have around one million users, mean that many people already have data in Reputation.com's service that they could trade with other companies in return for special offers.
Were coursework or regular school marks to be taken into account alongside exam grades, bribery would be even more rampant than it already is (parents often give "red packages" stuffed with banknotes to teachers in return for special attention for their child in class, or simply a seat nearer the front).
Already, the Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to clamp down on exchanges that, in return for special fees or guaranteed trading volume, provide certain hedge funds with access to some trading orders that come into its computers a fraction of a second before they are "posted" for everyone else.
We argue that when social ties benefit employees in one way or another, they are more likely to embrace such asymmetric relations and more committed to the employer as a return for special treatment.
The Chinese and Indian immigrants who form a significant minority in Malaysia, are considered beholden to the Malays for granting them citizenship in return for special privileges as set out in Article 153 of the Constitution of Malaysia.
"Fraud is wrong," Caplan says, "but shading an interpretation of a disease in the patient's favor — other things being equal — is an ethical choice". Accepting lavish gifts from a patient in return for special favors is clearly unethical since it violates core principles of standard medical and psychotherapeutic practice, he says.
