Sentences with phrase «boondoggles at»

These are not giant spectacles or grand boondoggles at resorts.

The resulting revolving - door culture has made it tempting for government lawyers, law firms, and corporations to take it easy on people who perpetrate boondoggles at major companies.

Then Mart Green turns around and donates hundreds of millions to organizations such as The Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma so they can bail out Anthony Jordan's boondoggle at False Creek.

Charters with all their instances of fiduciary malfeasence well - documented in the courts, etc. are a political, monetary boondoggle at the expense of those who are powerless, (unlike suburban parents), to do anything to either check them or put a stop to them.

Not exact matches

Village officials hope making the payment will help stave off future downgrades, but the entire hotel boondoggle is already a prime example of a government's misguided priorities in public investment, which comes at the expense of taxpayers.

While I'm not doing a Broadway boondoggle this fall, the hubby and kids do what we can to take in the ample arts and events in Austin — last week we sat in jaw - dropped amazement at Kooza by Cirque de Soleil and tonight the family is just taking it easy with a movie at home.

Mike, you are probably correct about Skelos and the rest of the Repubs trying to make political hay on this, but Medicaid Fraud has been a problem in this State for 50 years and all the politicians have ever done is to throw money at it, shuffle agencies, people and responsibility around like a 3 - card Monty con near Penn Station and continue to screw the taxpayers with the most expensive boondoggle in the country.

At his campaign kickoff he held up a picture of a vacant LED factory that he says is a «boondoggle» emblematic of Cuomo's «failed» and «corrupt» economic development policies.

With the beach vacation behind us, I've had the presence of mind to take a clear - eyed look at the sunscreen boondoggle.

Looking at times like John Carpenter's The Thing (John Seale's ravishing cinematography is easily the best part of the boondoggle), Dreamcatcher feels a great deal like what it likely is: a product of a down - on - his - luck director trying to juggle material that's clearly beneath him, jettisoning any sense of rhythm and cohesion in the belief that King's massive sales represent the kind of mindless support that defeats the director's best instincts while offering him a chance to regain the keys to the executive washroom.

In addition, a number of sources have explained that the Perry boondoggle was proposed and pushed by the Malloy administration as a requirement for Hartford getting any additional state funds at all.

It's AUTOMOBILE's annual All - Stars event, and this is the first time I haven't planned the boondoggle since starting at the magazine some six years ago.

But the patience and fortitude in this book about the New York Public Library and its most recent step into controversy may be better attributed to those who campaigned against what looks remarkably like a real - estate boondoggle, at least from the outside looking in.

The much older F - 16s, which did have large external fuel tanks, were still able to fly circles around the state - of - the - art fighter, calling into question whether or not the next generation aircraft is a worthy replacement at all, or merely an overpriced and over designed (the avionics alone require 24 million lines of code vs the F16's 135,000) boondoggle that the DOD can't undo.

The (now standard) violence perpetrated by Climate Change activists at the UN's latest climate boondoggle in Paris, is further proof that Left - wing ideology is the natural home of the barbarian.

Finally, the public works boondoggle known as Honolulu Area Rapid Transit (HART) would benefit immensely from hydrogen - powered, last - mile shared vehicle solutions at its stations.

The vast majority who do includes Senator Chap Petersen, who made news this year first by calling for a repeal of the 2015 boondoggle that will net Dominion a billion - dollar windfall at customer expense, and when that bill failed (in Senate Commerce & Labor, ahem), by calling for a ban on campaign contributions from public service corporations like Dominion.

To know what happens to government mandated boondoggles one only has to look at the Solyndra and Evergreen Solar fiascos.

The proposed Sherco natural gas plant bill will soon be at Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton's desk, after you watch our video, give him a call and tell him you oppose this billion - dollar boondoggle.

But that was back in 2010, since when spending on green boondoggles (eg the Obama «stimulus») has risen exponentially, so we're likely looking at ten Manhattan Projects now.

Incidentally a supervisor at the boondoggle construction site is now doing time for cocaine importation, apparently the workers couldn't believe their luck and spent much of the time in a cocaine and amphetamine haze: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/former-supervisor-at-victorias-desalination-plant-jailed-for-importing-marketable-quantity-of-cocaine-20151008-gk5098.html

Even if they never sell enough cars to make an honest profit, there's already been a huge profit to GM in the form of massive federal subsidies and of course, the massive bailout of GM itself back in 2008... Why not throw money at the electric car boondoggle?

A brief glance at the EPA's chart shows that level would not be meaningfully different from their «best» case scenario of the whole world joining us in a mutual economic suicide pact by embracing the destructive principles of Henry» the Evaporator» Waxman's boondoggle laden legislation.

That's not what his boss said when he committed at least $ 650 million in taxpayer's dollars towards this bitumen boondoggle.