Describing a project which is a candidate for economicstimulus spending, the one having a more immediateimpact on the economy as opposed to the project requiring a great deal of time that must elapse for architecture, zoning, legal considerations or other factors before labor can be deployed on it.
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First used by Barack Obama during an interview with Meet the Press on 6 December 2008.
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