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boondogglery

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  • The Sun's Greg Weston, who brought us news of the rapidly fluctuating in price Fake Lake ($2 million, $57,000, $500,000 but a bargain at any price) brings us news of more foolish Conservative over-spending and boondogglery:

    Ontario Blogs Feed 2010

  • These are liasons between the industry and the machinery of government boondogglery.

    Blue Mass. Group - Front Page 2009

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  • MaryW commented on the word boondogglery

    A condition characterized by rampant boondoggles.

    The FBI's intelligence division chief, Al Belmont, told General Doolittle's investigative group

    the CIA was shot through with "waste, inefficiency, and plain boondogglery."
    Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI (New York: Random House, 2012), p. 189

    July 19, 2017