But over the next few weeks it started a chain reaction in which a half-dozen other senators rushed to add another $29 million for their own pet building projects, a time-honored way of taking care of the folks back home.
Pork barrel projects are a time-honored tradition in Washington.
He had a tab at the restaurant Fedora, got his shaves at Mr. Joseph's barber shop, and threw himself into the time-honored Village custom of fighting off projects that threatened the neighborhood's historic character.
But since many of the freshman Republicans campaigned on a pledge to cut spending and to change Washington's time-honored ways, their support of spending projects suggests that in many cases ideology can go only so far in serving the needs of people back home.
There's a reason that breaking rocks is a time-honored form of hard labor.
This is but one time-honored ceremony documented and immortalized in Ally's ongoing "Wild Born Project," which aims to collect and compile the traditions observed and customs practiced in different, often remote, sites across the world.
Realizing that reinventing the shoe was out of the question, their company, Doshi Levien, named the project "Apprentice" in deference to the master cobbler's time-honored techniques.
Nixon also began the now time-honored tradition of calling for reduced oil import dependence when he launched Project Independence to "make the U.S. energy independent by 1980".
The event — helmed by the genre-bending artists Arto Lindsay and Rirkrit Tiravanija, and organized by former the Milan gallerist Emi Fontana's Pasadena project space West of Rome — is a celebration of Southern California's time-honored tradition of festive dissidence.
Thus do the New Voice Project, Joie de Vivre Théâtrale and Diana Basmajian (the director) maintain the time-honored theatrical-cinematic tradition of women undressing while men remain clothed in sex scenes.
Are projects like "Making of a Murderer" and "The Jinx" akin to the time-honored television mini-series, just in nonfiction form?
