Catchword: rice bowl

Filed Under: English, Military

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: But some also comes from an institutional, bureaucratic drive to have more airplanes and a bigger share of Navy and Defense Department budgets. “The air-systems people saw that whole program as a gigantic rice bowl they could put their hands into,” a critic in the Pentagon said.

Article or Document Title:
“How Hornet Was Stripped Of Values It Began With”

Author:
Richard Halloran

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
New York Times

Dateline:
Washington, D.C.

Date of Publication:
Nov. 23, 1982

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