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• The debate centers on how much government should regulate industry and whether that will affect climate change or be an expensive boondoggle.
• But I think this is why I still subscribe to the NYT Latest News Blog on my Kindle: so I can be boondoggled earlier. 2009 March | Spontaneous ∂erivation
• We need to return to vigorously fighting the development of this pricey boondoggle.
• The governor says the rail line, which he calls a "boondoggle," wouldn't have as high of a ridership as currently projected-citing a study from the Reason Foundation. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
• Republicans called the plan a boondoggle and a drain on federal highway funds.
• Sarah Palin has effectively stopped the boondoggled government option from Facebook while Obama can't do anything town hall after town hall. McCain addresses Palin, health care on Tonight Show
• `Sweeties I'll read as slow as I can though to try and boondoggle my time" she said. RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
• The senator called the new highways proposal "...a fraud and a boondoggle that the taxpayer should not tolerate".
• And highfliers with thriving core businesses pump capital into excess capacity or real estate boondoggles - or siphon funds into private projects.
• Higher-caliber critiques came from mayors unhappy with the federal government intervening in their affairs; from the right, which regarded the programs as boondoggles; and from the left, which wanted more local control of federal spending. Peace Corps Founder Shriver Dies at 95