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Even before it went to its final vote in December 2009, the CPRS was a colossal legislative white-elephant.
Peter Boyer: Australia's Hazardous Road To Climate Action Peter Boyer 2010
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Even before it went to its final vote in December 2009, the CPRS was a colossal legislative white-elephant.
Peter Boyer: Australia's Hazardous Road To Climate Action Peter Boyer 2010
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Even before it went to its final vote in December 2009, the CPRS was a colossal legislative white-elephant.
Peter Boyer: Australia's Hazardous Road To Climate Action Peter Boyer 2010
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Even before it went to its final vote in December 2009, the CPRS was a colossal legislative white-elephant.
Peter Boyer: Australia's Hazardous Road To Climate Action Peter Boyer 2010
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South Africa will be stuck with four new white-elephant stadia and public deficits and debts much worse than California's.
Christopher Lydon: The Political Economy of FIFA, with Vishwas Satgar (AUDIO) 2010
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AJ and I went back to the hooch and took part in a white-elephant gift exchange organized by Toby.
A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010
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Huge amounts of both tax and national lottery money have been squandered on white-elephant buildings – Museums of this and Centres of that, which have either closed for lack of public interest or been left unfinished or unopened, which is scandalous.
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Aside from the possible malice he's showing towards his home town -- here come massive deficits, white-elephant signature buildings, and other perks -- I found this story interesting as the ultimate rebuke to the months of comments from people here regarding the Obama administration's torpor when it comes to remedying the aftermath of the failure of the federal levees in New Orleans.
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But, as Jubilee 2000, an international group that's calling for debt cancellation, points out, corrupt leaders squandered funds on white-elephant projects, and often used foreign money for self-aggrandizement.
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The CN Tower, a giant white-elephant needle of a building loomed to the east of them.
BestScienceFictionStories.com » Post Topic » When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow 2008
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