Stung by such talk, in 2008 the previous Labour government proposed a new law updating the country's antiquated rules on backhanders and bungs, including those dispensed overseas.
On the other hand, “facilitation payments”, a euphemistic term for the small bungs sometimes paid to foreign officials to expedite a legitimate service—a licence application, for instance—are discouraged.
One conventional solution-identifying a few star performers and bunging them extra money-is not a retention strategy if large chunks of the workforce are thinking differently about their jobs.
And as the carter went on with the other two horses, she again crept under the tilt of the cart, and pecked out the bung of the second cask, so that all the wine ran out.
It's always the non-artists who come out with the most interesting things because they're not bunged up with preconceived ideas of what art should be or what they feel they should be doing.