Penney stake and regime change have been a more pathetic boondoggle than any Herbalife distributorship.
Far too much money has been spent on boondoggle projects of one sort or another.
That boondoggle stands in direct contrast to the tremendous success of the Great Northern Railroad.
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And because these special interests were so powerful, this boondoggle survived year after year, Congress after Congress.
So it's a little rich that this great referee boondoggle is entirely self-inflicted, built at the top.
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Conservatives said that government spending did not strengthen the infrastructure of the economy but only produced "boondoggle" projects.
That would be the most dangerous boondoggle in history, with little control over 2, 000 tons of radioactive garbage yearly.
If real life beckons, leave swaying grasslands behind, finishing this bird-watching boondoggle at I-10 with a short drive west to Tucson.
At least the Solyndra boondoggle ended when it went out of business.
There's actually a boon in the otherwise Medicare-drug-benefit boondoggle: Health Savings Accounts.
However, the currently renewed ethanol boondoggle is an indicator that sensibility and reason can quickly loose in the battle with lobbying and pork.
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But he seems almost guilty to confess that something which is widely seen as a FEMA boondoggle has actually been good for his town.
"While the former athletes' village turned out to be a boondoggle, the Olympics spurred construction along False Creek that has done very well, " said Campbell.
But can Heiligendamm amount to more than just a Baltic boondoggle?
Ending or relaxing the biodiesel mandate will end the food-for-fuel boondoggle.
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The biggest single boondoggle is money for high speed rail.
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This year and last year, snowpack is higher than usual, which means somebody is sitting on a hydropower boondoggle and is unwilling to let wind farm operators get in the way.
Who lobbies for and benefits from the biodiesel boondoggle?
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It had been an exciting but sluggish contest, owing partly to the unavoidable torpor that accompanies televised football, but mostly because of the persistent confusion brought by the NFL's great 2012 boondoggle: replacement officials.
This has traditionally been a feeble body of pen-pushers under a mild-mannered secretary-general, usually a senior regional official rewarded with the post as the crowning boondoggle in a career of not rocking the boat.
If not, it will look like a boondoggle.
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When the Supreme Court ruled last summer against the state mandate for Medicaid expansion (and preserved the individual mandate) that created a boondoggle now that many Republican governors are caving to Tea Party interests and refusing the Medicaid expansion aspect.
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The argument that providing grants to clean energy projects already under construction when the stimulus program began is some kind of boondoggle misses the point at both the level of an individual project, and the clean energy sector as a whole.
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Mild-mannered and self-effacing, Mr. Liodice transformed the annual conference from a cocktail-and-golf boondoggle cliche into a marketing TED-like event, with an inspiring and energetically relevant agenda, where the focus is on learning and useful dialogue (laced with networking, entertainment, and of course, a bit of cocktails and golf).
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And by the way the actions of these critics speak louder than words, because many of the members of Congress who voted against the Recovery Act, called it a boondoggle -- funny how they end up making appearances at ribbon cuttings for Recovery Act projects. (Laughter.) It's a sight to see.
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