logrolling

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lehmänkauppa puhekieltä The rollVerb rolling of logs from one place to another; an occasion when people meet to helpVerb help each other roll logs.
(quote-book)|month=February|year=1940|pages=6–7|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ay4jAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA5-PA6|oclc=493575762|passage=As most of the county was covered with forest, it was necessary to clear the land of trees, in order to make way for farming operations. Clearing of the land was accomplished by means of logrollings, a practice whereby logs were heaped into great piles and burned. Much valuable timber was destroyed in that manner, but, as no markets existed for timber, it was the most expedient method of ridding the land of trees. Logrollings continued until probably 50 years ago, when markets for forest products arose and timber began to be sawed and sold.
(quote-book)|year=1983|page=54|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_LyGBzIYbgoC&pg=PA54|isbn=978-0-19-503249-9|passage=Logrollings, for example, which occurred during the winter and early spring, took place in a series until the logs on every neighbor's farm were piled. So with many other chores, for cooperative patterns of work form an integral part of productive organization.
puhekieltä The act of balanceVerb balancing on a log floatVerb floating on a river to guideVerb guide it downstream, often involving rolling it using one's feet; birling.
puhekieltä A sport in which two people balance on a log floating in a body of water, each one aiming to cause the opponent to fall off by rolling or kicking the log.
(quote-book)|year=2011|page=xv|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IjtHqGbxqz8C&pg=PR15|isbn=978-0-299-28454-1|passage=Harkening back to the days when loggers had to break river jams free by carefully stepping out on floating logs, logrolling is all about maintaining balance. Also called birling, logrolling requires competitors to go head-to-head on a single log, trying to toss the other guy into the water by forcing him to lose his balance.
puhekieltä A concerted effort to push forward mutually advantageous legislative agendas by combineVerb combining two items, either or both of which might fail on its own, into a single billNoun bill that is more likely to passVerb pass.
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(quote-book)|year=1991|page=18|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3f6bTRHbbZ8C&pg=PA18|isbn=978-0-8014-9764-3|passage=By its nature logrolling pays off concentrated group interests and ignores diffuse interests, like taxpayers, who are hard to organize. Since interests in expansion and militarism are typically more concentrated than the interests opposed to them, logrolling is inherently more apt to produce overexpansion than underexpansion.
(quote-book)|year=1997|page=322|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=dHqEb20vngEC&pg=PA322|isbn=978-0-521-55377-3|passage=Incentives to engage in the exchange of votes in legislatures, or logrolling, have existed since the inception of legislatures. Most prominently, logrolling is alleged in the United States, where a plurality rule is employed to elect representatives from single-member districts.
(quote-book) If a negotiator is positional or demanding, logrolling will be much more difficult. Logrolling is the art and science of being firm but flexible.
puhekieltä mutual Mutual recommendation of friends' or colleagues' services or products, such as book recommendations in literary reviews.
(quote-journal)|date=3 January 2017|passage=The show around him &91;(w)&93;, with its cast of backbiting reality retreads and its blatant logrolling – the first challenge involved a beauty line put out by (w), one of Mr. w:Arnold Schwarzenegger|Arnold Schwarzenegger's "advisers" – was pretty much the same as always.
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