| 单词 | featherbedding |
| 例句 | This full-employment plan for kooks and hucksters gives new meaning to featherbedding. Opinion | Putting the ‘big lie’ to bed — in plush, luxurious comfort 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Policies that protect U.S. jobs at a cost of featherbedding and inefficiency are a mistake. Opinion | As Biden’s plans struggle in Congress, his back-door actions could get a jump on reshaping the economy 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z We can certainly find lots of instances of journalistic corruption -- fake quotes, fabricated stories, featherbedding etc. How the corona bailout fell apart 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z But when asked if he was exposed to birds, or slept on featherbedding, the man said yes to the latter. Man’s bedding was making him sick in odd case of 'feather duvet lung' 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z At its core, this is a fight over protecting railroad jobs — nothing new for the industry that invented the term “featherbedding” and kept “firemen” and cabooses on trains long after either served any useful purpose. Positive train control improves freight railroad safety 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The common thread, besides Trump’s racism, bigotry and featherbedding of the rich, is his disdain for evidence and his contempt for the norms and practices of good governance. If Oprah took on Trump, he would be the ultimate winner | Jonathan Freedland 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z And government reorganization endangers more than just featherbedding and excessive spending. What ‘Office Space’ can teach lawmakers 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z “I don't like it because I don't think it's necessary,” Trump told Bloomberg, describing it as “sort of a featherbedding for politicians” and “a few companies.” Trump picks a critic of the Export-Import Bank to be its leader 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Trump told the Journal that the bank benefits small businesses and creates jobs, a reversal of his earlier criticism of the bank being "featherbedding" for wealthy corporations. In win for Boeing and GE, Trump says he wants to revive export bank 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z “It’s sort of a featherbedding for politicians and others, and a few companies,” he told the conservative National Review in 2015. Businesses say they need the Export-Import Bank to sell goods abroad. Will Trump fix it? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z In one campaign appearance, Mr. Trump called some of the bank’s deals “featherbedding.” Trump, Battered in Washington, Is Buoyed at Boeing Rally 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The bureaucracy is riddled with waste, fraud, abuse and featherbedding. Time for Change at the U.N. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Surely there’s a certain amount of waste and featherbedding in a security industry that one study estimated at $350 billion a year. Americans Tell the Terrorists: You Win 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Equally, what once seemed like decent treatment for city workers, i.e. generous health care, pensions and pay, particularly for firefighters and police, is now seen as absurd featherbedding. Stockton: The city that ran out of luck 2012-07-04T02:07:53Z But now they’re lucrative sources of indirect compensation, and ripe for featherbedding. Freakonomics Quorum: Can Amtrak Ever Be Profitable? 2012-01-05T21:23:09Z The police have not defined their costs, and without a clear accounting of them, Wittenberg and other race promoters say they could end up becoming a victim of featherbedding. Proposed Police Fee for New York Races Worries Running Groups 2011-02-09T23:54:56Z When every joke about your business mentions featherbedding, you should be worried about outsourcing. Corporate law: Offshoring your lawyer 2010-12-16T11:04:09Z In the Soviet complex the labor unions were in no position to block the introduction of ultra-efficient methods, and featherbedding was unheard of. Combat "I did have a feeling," Dasinger admitted, "that Willata's Fleet was doing a little featherbedding when they said I'd have to hire a crew of three to go along with their speedboat." The Star Hyacinths No featherbedding, I was told, like our roads unfortunately have. Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' |
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