1.   And you have to absolutely shovel money into scores of officers to grow just one general, all forfeited in this fit of national peccadillo envy.

2.   But the very clear signal is that the administration is not going to shovel money through the door of the Pentagon.

3.   Investors shoveled money into technology, gold and oil service shares, which all tumbled in recent weeks.

4.   Instead, they jump into action, not only shovelling money into more conservative investments such as bond and money market funds, but dumping stock funds as well.

5.   Investors shoveled money into technology, oil service and gold shares that tumbled in recent weeks.

6.   None of this will work if Pentagon turf battles resume, abetted by congressional trade-offs designed to shovel money into as many districts as possible.

7.   The budget deficit has grown as the government has shoveled money into the economy in a vain attempt to revive it.

8.   As a result, venture capitalists are shoveling more money into their existing portfolio of companies and shying away from investing in companies approaching them for the first time.