PISEBY n.— «The PISEBY [put it in someone else’s back yard] attitude of the NYC BANANA [build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone] people in city government is making our environment worse, as landfills not only leak, but emit toxic...
road pricing n.— «Transport Secretary Alistair Darling has proposed charging drivers the equivalent of up to two dollars, 30 cents for every mile traveled on the nation’s most congested highways. “Road pricing,” as it’s...
rice bowl n.— «To be sure, there remain hotbeds—maybe “rice bowls” is more apt—of interest in IED and IPS in and out of the Navy.…Several government officials conclude that Secretary Danzig’s corporate approach cannot...
polder model n.— «For years Holland was governed under the so-called “polder model” with differences submerged as consensual coalition government did deals with unions and other interest groups.» —“In the footsteps of...
hist n.— «For my government job, it was all about either how little you could stand out, or, in the rare case (mine) just how much hist you could pull off and get away with.» —“How to succeed in government” by...
wheeling n.— «Freeholder Amy H. Handlin, who in recent months has emerged as an advocate for government reform, and Monmouth County Republican Party Chairman William Dowd both said yesterday that the practice of “wheeling”—in...