set-aside

For nearly a decade after that, it thrived on winning so-called "set-aside" contracts providing computer-systems integration for civilian agencies.

Contractors Find Gains Hard to Hold Emily Maltby 2011

One solution would be to remove some allowances from the market to create a shortage, a measure called set-aside.

EU Carbon Prices Jump Alessandro Torello 2011

Thanks to President Carter, she became honorary chair of the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities, where she established herself as a champion of art in public spaces and helped establish a set-aside for arts funding in the construction of new federal buildings.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

Thanks to President Carter, she became honorary chair of the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities, where she established herself as a champion of art in public spaces and helped establish a set-aside for arts funding in the construction of new federal buildings.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

Thanks to President Carter, she became honorary chair of the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities, where she established herself as a champion of art in public spaces and helped establish a set-aside for arts funding in the construction of new federal buildings.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

Replacement of the acreage set-aside program in grain crops (which typically had about 20 million participating acres) with direct price supports has resulted in an increase of about 5 million cultivated grain acres since 1996.

Survey of Regulation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The Small Business Administration has overhauled the rules for its main set-aside contracting program, a reform effort that agency officials said is aimed at reducing fraud and ensuring that money and other benefits flow to the right people.

Small Business Administration changes rules for set-aside contracting program Robert O'Harrow Jr. 2011

In 10 case studies, GAO's investigations found that those counterfeit businesses received roughly $100 million in service-disabled, veteran-owned small business sole-source and set-aside contracts, said

NEWS December 2010

Interesting side note - why didn't the end of the acreage set-aside result in the full increase of 20 million acres that one might expect, rather than just 5?

Survey of Regulation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

That's the land they'd put into the government set-aside program, not their prime bottom land.

Survey of Regulation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009