Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after all the shooting was over, the Crimson put its seventh consecutive notch on its Bowdoin gun barrel with a 9-0 drubbing of the Polar Bears in front of 45 fans...
...logic behind a line item veto is simple. By putting the entire federal budget into a single omnibus spending package, which the president must ratify in its entirety or veto (thereby shutting down the complete federal bureaucracy), legislators can insert a number of pork-barrel expenditures to please their constituents and improve their re-election chances. That is simply the nature of the legislative beast...
...pork-barrel expenditures included in the last omnibus spending bill, signed just before winter recess, range from the slightly humorous--$240,000 for a study of the damage done to macademia nuts by rats--to the seriously expensive--$25 million for an unneeded new airport in Fort Worth near the home territory Speaker of the House Jim Wright. In the several-thousand pages of an omnibus appropriations bill, these expenditures can be shielded from constituents, and congressmen can hide their support for these perks by claiming that they voted for the whole package, not individual appropriations...
...billion or more. Then Government's budget "summiteers," after much agonizing, produced a puny two-year, $76 billion deficit reduction package. Just before Christmas, Congress presented the President with a $603.9 billion spending bill for fiscal year 1988. The 2,100-page law was packed with pork-barrel goodies to please lawmakers' constituents...
Analysts have said the agreement, if approved, would lead to an immediate decline in world oil prices of as much as $2 a barrel, translating to a drop of about 5 cents a gallon in retail prices of gasoline and heating oil in the United States...