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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

  • The author is clear about her point of view – she is one of the people called NIMBYs who is personally going to be impacted.

    30 « June « 2009 « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

  • The author is clear about her point of view – she is one of the people called NIMBYs who is personally going to be impacted.

    June « 2009 « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009

  • *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

  • Instead, we're labelled NIMBYs, trouble-makers and opponents of "change."

    Toronto Sun 2008

  • Yeah, blame it all on the "NIMBYs," the new N-Word used by the "new urbanists."

    The Future is In Cities « PubliCola 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "NIMBYs" when your entire life savings are needlessly devastated by a disaster like this.

    PaloAltoOnline.com 2010

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