He has a reputation for honesty and an unbending refusal to countenance corruption or pork-barrel politics.

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The province is home to two Argentines in five, and has long been notorious for its pork-barrel politics.

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True, Carinthia suffers acutely from the dead hand of a bloated state sector and the pork-barrel politics it engenders.

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He was unwilling to court the egos on Capitol Hill and made disparaging remarks about what he clearly saw as pork-barrel politics.

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Cutting spending holds little appeal to the likes of Yoshiro Mori, the prime minister, who is a firm believer in traditional pork-barrel politics.

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Any big public project in Brazil provides opportunities for expensive pork-barrel politics in a legislature that can make high drama out of even routine spending bills.

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Kakuei Tanaka has become a sort of legend, practising on a vast scale what Americans call pork-barrel politics: keeping constituencies sweet with public works projects, which in turn kept his business backers happy.

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While the Peronists hanker for a deal with the conservative wing of the government, Domingo Cavallo and Gustavo Beliz, former Menem ministers who have formed their own grouping, have praised Mr Alvarez's stand against old-fashioned pork-barrel politics and evidently believe they could work with the modernising wing of the Alliance.

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In a bi-partisan display of pork barrel politics, Congressional officials in Northwest salmon country are making it clear that they will pull out all stops to block the FDA from issuing a final approval letter.

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