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n. (alternative form of old boy network English)
Usage examples of "old-boy network".
There is a big flurry of publicity-obvious PR plants-after the Nipponese tried to use their old-boy network to shut him out of the telecommunications market there, and he took it to the American public, spending $10 million of his own money on a campaign to convince Americans that the Nipponese were duplicitous schemers.
There is a big flurry of publicity -- obvious PR plants -- after the Nipponese tried to use their old-boy network to shut him out of the telecommunications market there, and he took it to the American public, spending $10 million of his own money on a campaign to convince Americans that the Nipponese were duplicitous schemers.
If his application of the old-boy network could help to mitigate that in any way he felt it worth the effort.
Which was why Thornburg had helped form Ham's career, using his old-boy network in Washington to give his favourite son all the advantages his intelligence and moral strength warranted.
Both were former FBI agents themselves-the FBI sends many retired agents off to such positions, which creates a large and diverse old-boy network-and both of them queried their computers and came up with account information, including name, address, credit history, and most important of all, recent charges.
Hartman had also brought an extensive web of personal contacts with him--decision makers who preferred the old-boy network over diplomatic or political bureaucracy.
He pays tax on some of it, and sits on ten or twelve boards who like to have a representative on the old-boy network.