line-items

Most of the money disappears into generic line-items like "other operating charges" which it refuses to explain.

Boing Boing 2009

Well, only 28 programs out of the thousands of line-items contained in the omnibus budget were terminated.

The Spenders Won 2011 2011

What's amazing is how quickly we've become inured to it, how naturally we've accepted the idea of "investing in ourselves," bartering for connections and resume line-items.

Lapham's Quarterly: Of Apprentices and Interns Lapham's Quarterly 2011

The Westchester County Legislature has overridden at least 17 of Mr. Astorino's vetoes on issues ranging from higher health-care contributions from public employees to the fees at Rye Playland, as well as 247 of 257 line-items in the 2011 county budget.

GOP Viewing Westchester As a Big Test Shelly Banjo 2011

Mr. Christie also cut the Legislature's funding, trimming $3.9 million mostly in line-items for salaries to get to $71.5 million.

Christie Wields His Line-Item Veto Power Lisa Fleisher 2011

What's amazing is how quickly we've become inured to it, how naturally we've accepted the idea of "investing in ourselves," bartering for connections and resume line-items.

Lapham's Quarterly: Of Apprentices and Interns Lapham's Quarterly 2011

All four points are potentially non-negligible line-items whose omission is completely unjustified by W&M.

Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010

The release cites a Republican Senate report that details some of the more attention-grabbing line-items in the stimulus bill:

Angle attacks Reid over 'coked-up stimulus monkeys' 2010

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell R-Ky. said that he found working with President Obama on the bipartisan tax-cut package "just fine," noting that the deal contained many Republican-supported line-items.

Biden: We'll be out of Afghanistan by 2014 'come hell or high water' (Sunday show roundup) Feliciia Sonmez 2010

You start adding features to satisfy line-items on some checklist that was constructed by interminable committee meetings among bureaucrats, and you're coding toward an externally-dictated product specification that maybe some company will want to buy a hundred "seats" of, but that nobody will ever love.

Groupware Still Sucks - Anil Dash 2007