A government report published at the end of 2011 concluded that British tax officials were treating big businesses too favorably with so-called sweetheart deals often struck at expensive restaurants or in secret.
My high school sweetheart was often self absorbed, manipulative and emotionally abusive.
Editor's Note: Though baby doll and sweetheart are often used as terms of endearment, these were not said at all with love or affection.
That is always a factor and then it is written on the casket, bye sweetheart, and I often say bye sweetheart to my daughter.
Henderson was no sweetheart in the N.B.A. Often at odds with his coaches, he played 10 seasons for Atlanta, Washington and Houston.
Sweetheart loans that were often forgiven and served as a means of disguising compensation or circumventing stock-sale disclosure rules became all too common in corporate America.
She still had an on-again, off-again relationship with the father of her first child, her high-school sweetheart, Brendan Hogan, but they often fought about his drinking and drug use, and he worked only sporadically, in construction or at a meatpacking plant.
It was the way, when they walked in, Gotti said "make yourself comfortable" and meant it, the way he knew all their names and often added "sweetheart" or "my love," the way he always kept a stash of Tootsie Pops for the children.
His posthumous autobiography, "A Life in Two Centuries," whose 700-plus pagEllalla had shepherded into print, refers to her often as "my sweetheart" or "my wife," casually enfolding her history into his.
Stars who presented themselves on screen as ringletted sweethearts or carefree flappers were often doing business deals and running movie sets in reality.
