stank bank n.— «San Diego County is spending $250,000 to investigate whether kelp is responsible for high bacteria counts at a cove that surfers refer to as “stank bank.”» —“Record closures this summer at popular Santa...
shotgunning v.— «U.S. Border Customs and Border Protection in San Diego say drug gangs are increasingly breaking down loads of up to a ton of marijuana into smaller quantities and hurling them at busy border stations, a technique dubbed...
hourglass economy n.— «Karr points out larger increases in job growth in the high-wage and low-wage ends of the income spectrum. He said CPI has noticed declines in job growth for the middle class for a number of years. “We’ve...
transactional lobbying n.— «Mr. Wilkes had set up separate meetings with the lawmakers hoping to win a government contract, and he planned to punctuate each pitch with a campaign donation. But his hometown congressman, Representative Bill...
wash trade n.— «In the natural gas case, there are examples of traders who agreed to buy the same amount of natural gas from each other in what is known as a “wash” trade, so they could report a high trade price to an industry...
boat rash n.— «My CPA came to me last year and asked if there was anything I could come up with to protect his nice, expensive reels from getting beat up, or what I call “boat rash,” on sport boats.…He came up with a...