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Operating by careful economic analysis instead of by political axe-grinding, Cummings proposed an investigation that has the potential to truly benefit Americans -- both in terms of short-term prices at the pump and our long-term energy future.
Marge Baker: Issa Meets His Match on the Oversight Committee Marge Baker 2011
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Much of it goes to transaction costs, and nearly all of the rest goes to various kinds of entertainment, axe-grinding, or rent-seeking.
Taxes vs. Philanthropy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Operating by careful economic analysis instead of by political axe-grinding, Cummings proposed an investigation that has the potential to truly benefit Americans -- both in terms of short-term prices at the pump and our long-term energy future.
Marge Baker: Issa Meets His Match on the Oversight Committee Marge Baker 2011
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Operating by careful economic analysis instead of by political axe-grinding, Cummings proposed an investigation that has the potential to truly benefit Americans -- both in terms of short-term prices at the pump and our long-term energy future.
Marge Baker: Issa Meets His Match on the Oversight Committee Marge Baker 2011
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JT may consider her novels as "clunky, cartoonish, unsubtle, and axe-grinding" but they sure have been commercially successful (read: people are willing to trade hard earned money to buy these books) and they continue to influence generations of entreprenuers, architects, business people, etc.
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Operating by careful economic analysis instead of by political axe-grinding, Cummings proposed an investigation that has the potential to truly benefit Americans -- both in terms of short-term prices at the pump and our long-term energy future.
Marge Baker: Issa Meets His Match on the Oversight Committee Marge Baker 2011
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I have only read "The Fountainhead" and found it embarrassingly bad, from the clunky prose to the cartoonish characters to the unsubtle, axe-grinding treatment of her themes.
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I figured most people here would catch the reference, and adding too much detail might sound like bitter axe-grinding.
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The axe-grinding (including the misdirect as to the nature of the axe) made for sloppy story-telling.
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And this is not some political axe-grinding on my part, it's just what I see as the sadly reliable outcome once you've embraced a realism about the way in which the profit-motive directs the behavior of for-profit (political) media providers in largely predictable ways.
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