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BDBoard
BDBirthday
BDBig Deal
BDBaud
BDBachelor of Divinity
BDBangladesh (top-level domain name)
BDBermuda
BDBlu-ray Disc
BDBound
BDBase de Datos (Spanish: Database)
BDBlack Diamond
BDBroker Dealer (securities firm)
BDBand (German: Volume [books])
BDBob Dylan (singer)
BDBelly Dance
BDBis in Die (Latin: twice a day)
BDBreak Down
BDBusiness Development
BDBoulevard
BDBipolar Disorder
BDBlock Diagram
BDBass Drum
BDBusiness Day
BDBundle
BDBradford (postcode, United Kingdom)
BDBlue Diamond
BDBreaking Dawn
BDBlack Dog (White-Wolf's game studio)
BDLa Bande Dessinee
BDBoundary
BDBank Draft
BDBlack Dragon (gaming)
BDBack Door
BDBeaver Dam
BDBrain Damage (Pink Floyd song/fanzine)
BDBandes Dessinées (French: Comic Books)
BDBecton Dickinson and Company
BDBirth Defect
BDBearded Dragon
BDBio-Diesel
BDBlood Donation
BDBig Dig (Boston, MA, USA)
BDBlue Devils (drum and bugle corps; Concord, CA)
BDBen Davis (High School)
BDBile Duct
BDBone Dry
BDBritish Midland (IATA airline code)
BDBarrels per Day
BDBob Dole
BDBuilding Department
BDBarndoor
BDBinomial Distribution
BDBlueDragon (computer parsing engine)
BDBluetooth Device
BDBehavior Disorder
BDBreakdance
BDBen Drowned (Creepypasta)
BDBlowdown
BDBomb Disposal
BDBastardidentro (Italian video)
BDBondage & Discipline
BDBinary to Decimal
BDBeedi (Indian cigar)
BDBible Dictionary
BDBody Development (gaming)
BDBehcet's Disease
BDBirth Doula (childbirth)
BDBig Dawg
BDBlack Disciples (gang; Chicago, IL)
BDBaron Davis (NBA Player)
BDBug Detector (electronics)
BDBrought Down
BDBase de Donnée (French: Database)
BDbudget deficit
BDBinary Digit
BDBody Density (body compostion analysis)
BDBills Discounted
BDBaby Dance (trying to get pregnant)
BDButadiene
BDBig Detroit
BDBoondoggle
BDBanda Desenhada (Comic Books)
BDBase Damage
BDBetterdays (band)
BDBig Dummy (cycling; Surly)
BDBroken Dreams
BDBoard Diagnostics
BDBlowing Dust (weather reports)
BDBahraini Dinar (unit of currency)
BDBulk Density
BDBrood War (game)
BDBoot Drive
BDBiological Defense
BDBronchodilator (respiratory airflow)
BDBarrel Distortion (video distortion)
BDBoulder Dash (computer game)
BDBrand Development
BDBirth Dad (adoption)
BDBonner Durchmusterung (astronomy)
BDBritish Midland Airlines (airline IATA code)
BDBirth Daughter
BDBilling Domain
BDBerne Declaration (Switzerland)
BDBaker's Dozen
BDBuffer Descriptor (PowerPC CPM)
BDBuildings Department
BDBroder Daniel (band)
BDBy Direction
BDBrownian Dynamics
BDBinary Discrete
BDBinary Divide
BDBootable Disk
BDBaby's Daddy (denotes a father of a child who is not married to the mother)
BDBrachydactyly
BDBase Deficit (acid-base balance)
BDBranch Davidian (cult)
BDBombardment Division
BDBiomedical Diagnostics
BDBlade Dancer (game Lineage2)
BDBattlefield Distribution
BDBattlefield Digitization
BDButane Diol
BDBinary Dump
BDBurmester-Desmedt
BDBaseline Description
BDBinary Decoder
BDBypass Diode
BDBase-Down Prism (ophthalmology)
BDBio-Daughter
BDBus Director
BDBuried Distribution
BDBase-Line Design
BDBallast Deck (railroad bridges)
BDBeginning Descent
BDBritish Dressage Ltd (UK)
BDBranch Deletion
BDBiennial Declaration
BDBalcony Drain (plumbing)
BDBiodiagnóstico SA (Guatemala, private lab)
BDBachelor of Drama
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Kayakers anglers like Vickie, Russ and others I met this year at events like the Adventure Championship and Boondoggle are a different breed.
Dr Henley believes the city council's joint venture company with Capita, Service Birmingham, is a boondoggle.
Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) describes the energy bill provision requiring ethanol content in gasoline "nothing less than an ethanol tax levied on every driver" and a "boondoggle."
WITH THE NEW medicare prescription-drug benefit proving an ever more byzantine boondoggle, one would understand if AARP, the bill's most important supporter when it was enacted, wanted to guide its members through this thicket.
But worst of all is the role to be played by this hugely expensive boondoggle in linking the transportation system of the United States with that of Mexico, thereby creating the infrastructure that will facilitate the creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
"As he tried to unite the party forged from so many factions--old Progressive Conservatives, old Reformers, conservatives social and fiscal, urban and rural, east and west--Harper's strongest card was the Liberals' $250-million sponsorship boondoggle. 'Maybe they should start by pondering the old commandment "'Thou shalt not steal,"' Harper said as the crowd cheered and stomped its feet."
A National Association of State Boards of Education spokesman called the program a "financial boondoggle," adding that it's "a solution in search of a problem.
And no we're not talking about the alternative dispute resolution process for Indian residential school compensation claims, although history will place that shameful boondoggle high up the list.
Others believe the report is the real boondoggle. "The NDRC budget assessment is wrong, and they are misleading people," says Bryan Wilkes, director of public affairs for the National Nuclear Security Administration in Washington, D.C.
Some may even have access to a round of golf; if they promise not to use it merely as a boondoggle.
"This law was drafted by attorneys and was probably one of the most convoluted pieces of legislation in memory, a real regulatory boondoggle and, consequently, the service took off like a shot.
But don't get the wrong idea--this was not an extravagant boondoggle. Serious business was taking place.
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