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Golden Goose

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The Golden Fleece Award

In 1980, a Golden Fleece to the Federal Highway Administration. For spending over $240,000 on computerized directions for people who can't or won't read maps. A lot of what we came to understand about alcoholism started with studies of rats. But any time Alan tried to make his case, to Proxmire, he'd cut me off and go to the next one.

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