A Way with Words | Political

Counciltucky

Posted by Grant Barrett on August 3, 2009 · Add Comment

go grassy knoll on someone

Posted by Grant Barrett on January 28, 2009 · Add Comment

lean forward

Posted by Grant Barrett on July 20, 2006 · Add Comment

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silo funding

Posted by Grant Barrett on December 9, 2004 · Add Comment

silo funding other.— «We’ve neglected, not only the law, but the infrastructure of public health for more than a century and now what we have to do is stop the silo funding and more generalized funding and capacity level at the state and local level.» —“U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee: Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations Holds A Hearing [...]
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cross-decking

Posted by Grant Barrett on December 9, 2004 · Add Comment

cross-decking n.— «Cross decking is for, and I think we all in one way or another suffer from it, it’s when you have an officer and enlisted who possesses a specialty that is so unique and so low in numbers that when you’re operating at the type of tempo we’re operating sometimes that individual’s value is [...]
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caging

Posted by Grant Barrett on November 3, 2004 · Add Comment

caging n.— «Computer Caging (caging is the direct-mail industry term for collecting money) had raised money for Gann’s fight to preserve Proposition 13 from a legal counter-attack.» —“‘Booming Enterprise’ New Forces Take Political Initiative” by Jay Mathews in Sacramento, Calif. Washington Post July 3, 1984. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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