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The author is clear about her point of view – she is one of the people called NIMBYs who is personally going to be impacted.
Whatever happened to environmental assessment? « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009
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The author is clear about her point of view – she is one of the people called NIMBYs who is personally going to be impacted.
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The author is clear about her point of view – she is one of the people called NIMBYs who is personally going to be impacted.
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*The knowledge that you should never call NIMBYs anything other than NIMBYs, because it's a funny-sounding word, sort of like Gumby, and I bet those NIBMYS feel embarrassed when they're called that.
The "Go Back to Kansas" Argument Brooks of Sheffield 2008
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Instead, we're labelled NIMBYs, trouble-makers and opponents of "change."
Toronto Sun 2008
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Yeah, blame it all on the "NIMBYs," the new N-Word used by the "new urbanists."
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I’d say the NIMBYs are the people of New Ulm who want to put their windfarm in someone else’s backyard.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Using Eminent Domain to Take Wind Rights 2009
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In disparaging as "NIMBYs" residents fighting for life quality and an ecologically intact Florida, Smith might sway some that "public servants look out for your best interests."
SplicedFeed 2010
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In disparaging as "NIMBYs" residents fighting for life quality and an ecologically intact Florida, Smith might sway some that "public servants look out for your best interests."
SplicedFeed 2010
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"NIMBYs" when your entire life savings are needlessly devastated by a disaster like this.
PaloAltoOnline.com 2010
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