Word: luau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real money, that is a pretty meager sum alongside the public-works projects that used to be whooped through Congress in the days before the deficit doldrums. As Republican Congressman Jim Bunning of Kentucky cracked, "Calling this a pork-barrel bill is like calling a strip of bacon a luau...
...visit turns into a kind of Main Street Club Med: giddy committee members rode a riverboat up the Potomac, sipped champagne on an antique-locomotive ride to the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and donned balloon hats and leis to feast on pork and lobster at a Texas luau...