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- noun Plural form of
fiefdom .
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Examples
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The existing alphabet soup of agencies and separate local fiefdoms is a dysfunctional mess.
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The irony is that you're more likely to get all of the megaprojects, and fewer improvements to the roadways in your neighborhood, if you take away some element of control for project spending via local 'fiefdoms' -- like the mayor and city council of your city, etc.
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"fiefdoms" - is both unwieldy and expensive, they say.
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"Those are the very same powerful Pentagon 'fiefdoms' that created the problem in the first place," Grassley wrote, "and the very same ones that Eisenhower warned us about 50 years ago."
Winslow T. Wheeler: Memo to Tea Party Senators Winslow T. Wheeler 2010
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"Those are the very same powerful Pentagon 'fiefdoms' that created the problem in the first place," Grassley wrote, "and the very same ones that Eisenhower warned us about 50 years ago."
Winslow T. Wheeler: Memo to Tea Party Senators Winslow T. Wheeler 2010
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"Those are the very same powerful Pentagon 'fiefdoms' that created the problem in the first place," Grassley wrote, "and the very same ones that Eisenhower warned us about 50 years ago."
Winslow T. Wheeler: Memo to Tea Party Senators Winslow T. Wheeler 2010
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"Those are the very same powerful Pentagon 'fiefdoms' that created the problem in the first place," Grassley wrote, "and the very same ones that Eisenhower warned us about 50 years ago."
Winslow T. Wheeler: Memo to Tea Party Senators Winslow T. Wheeler 2010
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"Those are the very same powerful Pentagon 'fiefdoms' that created the problem in the first place," Grassley wrote, "and the very same ones that Eisenhower warned us about 50 years ago."
Winslow T. Wheeler: Memo to Tea Party Senators Winslow T. Wheeler 2010
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"Those are the very same powerful Pentagon 'fiefdoms' that created the problem in the first place," Grassley wrote, "and the very same ones that Eisenhower warned us about 50 years ago."
Winslow T. Wheeler: Memo to Tea Party Senators Winslow T. Wheeler 2010
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"Those are the very same powerful Pentagon 'fiefdoms' that created the problem in the first place," Grassley wrote, "and the very same ones that Eisenhower warned us about 50 years ago."
Winslow T. Wheeler: Memo to Tea Party Senators Winslow T. Wheeler 2010
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