featherbedding

I do not mean to imply that there is no medical featherbedding.

We have rampant featherbedding and corruption in the construction industry.

We do no featherbedding and we will not support the practice anywhere.

Today's front page story covers the featherbedding that seems to be a feature of almost all city departments.

Should the notion of featherbedding be writ large and tolerated in this Government entity too?

Management claimed that this constituted featherbedding and reduced the competitiveness of the American steel industry.

A lot of the featherbedding has been eliminated."

Judicial featherbedding explains why judges insist on filtering everything the jurors hear.

"Featherbedding will be illegal and punishable," Morris told him.

They know better than anyone where the featherbedding is, and where the inefficiencies and waste are.

The work force was slashed to 1,300, ending the featherbedding that was a staple of Soviet factory life.

And they are eager to display resolve as bargaining begins with 27 blue-collar craft unions, legendary for their featherbedding.

Featherbedding is still common.

Every president since Peron has accepted the featherbedding that he began and the public payroll has grown to 30 percent of all jobholders.

Featherbedding, waste and extravagance are appalling.

"Well, there was a little featherbedding.")

"There's so much featherbedding."

Brussels charges that Athens spends its money on political featherbedding rather than on its poor educational system, roads or telephones.

Mostly I stayed quiet in the tiny compartment, lying on a hard cot that belied the colloquial name from centuries past- "featherbedding."

Hard times are doing what hard times are supposed to do: force an end to business inefficiency long encouraged by government-protected featherbedding.

"Featherbedding sounds bad these days, but it amounted to another way of making a buyout, except that you pay them over a long period instead of all at once.

"We want to clean up the enormous featherbedding that we now have as well as the notorious presence of organized crime," said Robert E. Boyle, the center's new executive director.

Their previous experience in making films in a studio setting, with all the featherbedding and profligacy that implies, had convinced them there was an easier and cheaper way to do things.

More recently, the development of synthesizers and other computerized sources of music that function as virtual electronic orchestras has led producers to say the orchestra minimums are needless and shameful featherbedding.

A rich and seemingly unique concatenation of homosexuality, adultery, suspicions of political featherbedding, and rumors of extortion and sexual harassment made the McGreevey scandal look like an aberration.