Salami-slice

//səˈlɑːmi ˌslaɪs//

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Italian

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  • fare a fettine verb (to tackle a big task in incremental steps)
  • tagliuzzare verb (to tackle a big task in incremental steps)

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Lawyers and businessmen made fortunes in land deals and then leveraged profits to build more ticky-tack in fragile areas. A friend of mine boasts how his company broke the ban on subdivisions in the foothills. Vast areas were closed off to hikers. The city council and Pima County supervisors, for reasons I've never understood, kept saying yes. In the end Tucson quietly salami-sliced itself to death.

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Congress should not be misled to believe that "salami slicing" indications and off-label prescribing practices will resolve the Act's current inequities. These trends will only proliferate problems with the Act.

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As project manager it is unlikely that you have all the necessary knowledge and subject matter expertise to undertake this task alone. You will need to involve other people in helping you salami slice the project.

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By salami slicing the disease into subgroups, it allows them [pharmaceutical companies] to get the orphan drug approval with all the government benefits and even some of the subsidies.

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