| I hope, however, that they are equally keen on maintaining the age-old tradition of literary backscratching. |
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| Of course, business is all about mutual backscratching, nothing wrong with that, but if I am right, I want to be a part of that network. |
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| They're not only using these books to fill space and time that might be used to better purpose, but they're also engaging in corporate backscratching. |
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| Overlooked in all this international backscratching is a country with a longer Sino track record and perhaps a, if less visible, more dignified national character. |
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| And mutual backscratching ensures the press don't go short of co-operation in stories that are purely rugbyrelated. |
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| Because the outside directors set the compensation of managers, this approach is potentially vulnerable to accusations of mutual backscratching. |
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| The fount of social problems, he argues, is that human morality grew out of the natural principles of tit-for-tat and mutual backscratching. |
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| There are no votes to lose in England, plenty to garner in Scotland and the SNP wouldn't want to be accused of backscratching the Tories by abstaining. |
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| What did reliably function at the plant, according to allegations contained in the Rangers investigative report, was a system of political fundraising and backscratching. |
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