shovel-ready

Similarly, big projects naturally end. Do not worry about projects being "shovel ready" : the savings excess will last.

Spending on infrastructure is taking a while to kick in, despite all the talk of 'shovel ready projects. ' Weaknesses in U.

You know, attacking Iran is a shovel-ready project.

Now, as David Paterson, New York's governor, dryly puts it, "Everyone with a shovel says they're shovel-ready. "

Do not worry about projects being "shovel ready" : the savings excess will last.

But details are scant, even as many states have scores of "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects set to be axed .

Reconstruction takes care of it: sadly, there is no lack of shovel-ready projects after earthquakes.

Much emphasis has been placed on projects that are "shovel-ready" , and with good reason.

He realized too late that "there's no such thing as shovel-ready projects" when it comes to public works.

But its design was poor: too much spending on shovel-ready projects that weren't; too little in tax cuts.

In spite of promises from governors about "shovel ready" projects, this term is almost an oxymoron. There were few such projects.

So you can be shovel-ready even if you don't have a shovel.

We will become shovel-ready once again and improve the various kinds of infrastructure which link us together.

Maybe in China there are shovel-ready projects of sufficient scale, but not in the US.

that "shovel-ready projects" could combine short-term cyclical and long-term structural agendas;