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Example sentences for: budget-busting

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James Cameron's budget-busting epic, expected to be a Waterworld -style flop, winds up getting mostly good reviews.
Sure, notes the Post , there was the (budget-busting, drunk-driving-ignoring) highway bill, but what about tobacco legislation, campaign finance reform, a student loan bill, health care, food stamps for needy immigrants, child care subsidies, reforming the Endangered Species Act and Superfund, or paying up our U.N. bill?