Word: pork-barrel
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...problems throughout the state. For example, the just completed $4 million Yukon-Kuskokwim youth correctional facility will probably never open its doors. There is no state money to operate it. "So much of our economy has been artificial," says City Councilwoman Diane Carpenter, speaking of a generation of pork-barrel construction projects expensively built on pilings above the shifting permafrost. "Now that there are no jobs for young people, there will be social dislocation, anger and bitterness...
...campaigning is frowned upon, but three men are touted as front runners: Energy Minister Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez, a former governor of the state of Mexico; Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett Diaz; and Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Minister of Budget and Planning. The P.R.I., traditionally uses lavish patronage and pork-barrel politics to ensure an impressive margin of victory...
...which cost taxpayers millions of dollars, was a prime example of congressional intervention in arms purchases, based almost solely on parochial, pork-barrel politics. While Northrop supporters noted that the competition had forced General Dynamics to offer a streamlined F-16 at $3.5 million less than the normal $12.5 million, Northrop had gambled more than $1 billion on its F-20. Only three of the Tigersharks were built; two crashed during demonstration flights...
...After the House rebuffed contra aid a month ago, Speaker Tip O'Neill had agreed to bring the matter back to the House floor -- but only if it was attached to a supplemental appropriations bill packed with goodies for legislators. He knew that the President was opposed to the pork-barrel bill. He also knew that it would take weeks or months before the House version could be reconciled with a Senate bill and put into a form that Reagan might sign. Thus, attaching the contra aid to the spending bill meant at least a long delay in money...
...irrelevant riders and enmeshed in heated controversy. Among the big stumbling blocks this year was the House vote to cut off U.S. aid to the contra guerrillas battling the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, while the Senate insisted on continuing to fund the contras. Also the House voted to authorize pork-barrel water projects that eventually might cost $18 billion; the Senate, sensitive to a threat of presidential veto, refused...