We chatted about this and that , and he said how much he was enjoying his assortment of sinecures non-executive directorships , speaking engagements and so on .
我们聊了很多,他谈到自己是多么喜爱现在各种各样的闲差担任非执行董事,应邀演讲等等。
The professions , the government job - all the old sinecures that let people avoid capitalism even while praising it - are either being eliminated or brought under the umbrella of capitalism .
The cost of this has usually been enough to deter them , allowing the official slate of directors to retain their lucrative boardroom sinecures uncontested-even if only a tiny proportion of shareholders actually vote for them .
The bureaucracy , for its part , has begun to prepare for change , by using the annual personnel changes during the summer to send senior officials that are close to the ldp to sinecures in japan and at international organisations overseas .
An inquiry into chicago 's public finances revealed " lavish expenditures , downright thievery on a mammoth scale , and the creation of sinecures for political abettors . "
By that measure , the sinecures in the uk and japan , which went to lou susman , the chicago investment banker , and john roos , the silicon valley lawyer , are treated as rewards for election fund-raising rather than investments in a long-term relationship .