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  • n  a never-ending cycle of activities and events (especially when they seem to have little purpose)
    if we lose the election the whole legislative merry-go-round will have to start over
  • n  a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement

  • At a time when the excesses of the Jack Abramoff scandal have prodded Congress to at least go through the motions on lobbying reform, the dizzying merry-go-round of staffers like .
  • Gerosa began a merry-go-round of accusations by pointing a finger at Wagner for using city-paid domestic help in his Long Island summer home (the New York district attorney's .
  • The merry-go-round is not just a simple piece of playground equipment.
News & Articles

  • Still more coaching changes and honoring local legends
    Notes as the local basketball coaching merry-go-round continues to spin (more on that in a second):
    June 19, 2013 - The Ledger Independent
  • Merry-go-round of life needs Hoffman's Playland
    Merry-go-round of life needs Hoffman's Playland Times Union Copyright 2013 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 8:16 am, Sunday, June 16, 2013 Colonie For people who love Hoffman's Playland, the news arrived like a punch in the stomach. The Route 9 amusement park, we learned a few days ago, could give way to yet ...
    June 17, 2013 - Albany Times Union
  • Why Andre Villas-Boas to PSG makes sense
    The latest name to join the Paris Saint-Germain coaching merry-go-round was Tottenham Hotspur ’s Andre Villas-Boas on Tuesday night according to reports in England from the Daily Mail . No sooner had the exclusive dropped then British and also Italian journalists, such as Dominic Fifield in the Guardian , started backing up the claims and now it appears that the side from the French capital have ...
    June 12, 2013 - Bleacher Report
Quotes

  • Ted Thompson in Forbes
    We've been through this merry-go-round a couple times,Thompson said. "But like I said before - and he was the first one to admit it in our conversations toward the end of the year - that he knew that a decision needed to be made fast. Like...
  • Dusty Baker in USA Today
    It was like a merry-go-round for a while,Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "They jumped out early and whacked us pretty good."

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