silo funding
other.— «Even when the feds provide money, often the strings attached make it hard for the states to use it efficiently. For instance, Missouri CIO Gerry Washington told conference attendees that federal grants to pay for a health-alert network prevent its use by public-safety authorities, which requires the states to build a duplicate network, wasting taxes. “That’s a real problem,” Washington said. “We’ve got to get out of the silo-funding mode,” Washington said.» —“State CIOs Losing Faith In Bush Administration Promises” by Eric Chabrow FSI Mar. 4, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Karina from Maryville, Missouri, disagrees with her mom about whether bowl and bull sound the same. Karina hears them as the same sound, while her mom hears a clear difference. It’s an example of a vowel merger, or sound shift, that occurs in...
Is there such a thing as a “neutral” accent, and if so what does it sound like? And that quirk in the way southern Californians talk about freeways. They’ll say things like take the 405 and get on the 8. Why the definite article...