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The state has been hurling money at infrastructure and contractors' pockets, with cost over-runs the order of the day.
RS Believe it or not, there was once a time when hurling money at a problem in a desperate attempt to buy success was deemed beyond the pale.
Then news gets out that the king is coming and suddenly the dull burghers of York are hurling money at their humble plays in an orgy of self-aggrandisement.
With the connivance of the International Olympic Committee, they turned what used to be an amateur sport into the equivalent of a national defence force, hurling money and status at their athletes while the IOC turned the Games into a lavish field of the cloth of gold – at some poor taxpayer's expense.
Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr. tried to "make it rain" on protesters in the state capitol by hurling money at them.
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Governments hurl money at it when trying to fix failing economies.
The financial crisis that led the Fed to hurl money at the economy and prop up the housing market also exposed a past inattention to regulation.
Advertisers hurl money at the internet, which reaches a tiny minority of the over-45s, who prefer to read or watch television.
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