Bureaucratic buck passing is as unpopular as arriving too late for dinner in Pasto, although both are standard fare in Bogota.
The alliance- set up after a public meeting against the plans - said Mr Jones's announcement was "an exercise in buck passing that still isn't over".
Still that mantra has got to stop for as Mr Hayward discovered, the US lawmakers have not time not an interest in more buck passing any bellyaching.
More likely it is corporate buck-passing, designed to help chief executives get around the new rule.
Will there be real investment, or just more buck-passing between federal agencies and states?
Rather than delivering better care it will reinforce the culture of buck-passing and mutual blame.
But this would require the two levels of government to stop buck-passing and get their act together.
There's too much buck-passing when it comes to vulnerable adults or senior citizens.
That buck-passing attempt did little to bolster investor morale.
"There are real risks that perverse incentives will be created that will undermine partnerships that have taken time to develop and foster an unproductive culture of buck-passing and mutual blame between health and social care, " the report said.
In the event, for all the nastiness, buck-passing and back-biting this mass of material exposes, it only reinforces Mr Pollard's conclusions: that the BBC's lines of accountability were deeply flawed and that members of its lavishly paid and top-heavy management saw it as their priority, in a crisis, to flunk responsibility rather than take it.
But its most successful measure to date has also been the simplest: passing the buck.
Mr Ma said that overlapping of duties within various ministries had often led to officials passing the buck.
BBC: Travellers at the Beijing West Railway Station, Jan 2013
Instead Charles Clarke acted in the best interest of the government, by swiftly passing the buck to the LEAs.
"Simply passing the buck to the committee is not good enough as I warned him personally before he took his decision, " he said.
His opponent, Democrat Barack Obama, accused McCain of passing the buck.
One of the most memorable images of this crazy summer has been armies of volunteers filling the breach left by government lack of funding and passing the buck.
To bury it in a big hole in the ground, and pray that some future generation may discover how to make it safe, is simply passing the buck.
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