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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