Everybody gets wonderful new mass transit upgrades, alternative energy infrastructure, smart grids, and bridges to nowhere.
In short, such a BIS transaction with Moscow would represent a bridge loan to nowhere.
So they got the money but without the designation for the bridge to nowhere.
In fact, let's listen to Governor Palin talking about that famous bridge to nowhere.
The Bridge to Nowhere became such an embarrassing symbol of waste, Congress ultimately gave up earmarks.
"The bibliography of the bank is meagre and leads to nowhere in particular, " Jarvie observed.
The Dakota, completed in 1884, stands in an uptown wilderness of streets to nowhere.
Lawmakers seem to be on a similar track to nowhere when it comes to Medicare.
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"When you have these kinds of numbers, you're on kind of a treadmill to nowhere, " she said.
Those who had missed out in 1999 rushed aboard that train to nowhere with very bad results.
But this bridge to nowhere economy, as some naysayers might call it, has one big immediate hurdle.
"This is a jump to nowhere that does not bode well either for Italy or for Europe, " he said.
Her opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere is different because it became a centerpiece of the Republican presidential campaign.
And in fact, John McCain had picked up on the Bridge to Nowhere more than a year before that.
Look at the highway bill that had 3, 000 pork barrel projects on it including bridges to nowhere in Alaska.
But their youth training schemes were not directly related to jobs, and often attracted criticism as roads to nowhere.
Palin's claims to oppose the Bridge - I'm sorry - to Nowhere when the fact indicates she initially supported it.
"Of course we want infrastructure - and this is NOT a 'bridge to nowhere' (that is so offensive), " she replied.
One simply wants to enter into the taut narrative of the play, to be an observer on that train to nowhere.
The sad truth is that there are not nearly enough "bridges to nowhere" in the budget to close the fiscal gap.
The Bridge to Nowhere went from the drawing board to the dustbin.
The journey from nowhere to nowhere becomes an absurdist quest, as if John Ford had been overtaken along the trail by Samuel Beckett.
The more people who point out that natural gas is a bridge fuel to nowhere, the closer we get to a clean energy future.
To put it bluntly, the "bridge-loan" (BIS originated or otherwise) envisioned by most G-7 partners, would represent a bridge to nowhere under current circumstances.
"This is a jump to nowhere that does not bode well either for Italy or for Europe, " Garcia-Margallo said, quoted by Reuters news agency.
And Sarah Palin accepted the money, she did not build the bridge to nowhere because it was at that point a national laughing stock.
But the government would sure have one heck of a time building roads and bridges (even bridges to nowhere) without countless very successful businesses over time.
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