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throw money at
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“I think just having the French tailwinds and having that market behind them, they're gonna be able to throw money at the problem for a long time. It doesn't have to be efficient. They can lose money in the German market for 10 years just to get over that barrier of fax machines.”
In 1946, he gets together with a bunch of other former America Firsters to organize something called the American Action Committee, which was the first right-wing political action committee, one of the first attempts to form a meaningful organized conservative institution after World War II. It's not a long-term success, but they are able to throw money at a couple of key congressional races against who they see as New Deal radicals.
The rational thing is that he has been given some money, so it’s a bit of a reprieve; he has cash in hand so he can throw money at his wife to appease her for a little longer.
“This will be a very easy vehicle for foreign governments that want to curry favor with the president to throw money at him in a way that benefits his financial bottom line,” said Jack Goldsmith, a law professor at Harvard University and a top Justice Department official under President George W. Bush.
While the share of income going to debt service is higher than it was three years ago — when stimulus checks were making it easier for people to throw money at their credit card bills — it is still low by historical standards.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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