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In 1982, Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisc.) highlighted a federal program to teach teens to make shirts - that made not one shirt.
In 1982 the Synthetic Fuels Corporation won the Golden Fleece Award for spending $>44K on a study to give its personnel raises.
In 1982, the U.S. Department of Agriculture actually studied the link between food preferences and personality and social identity.
In 1981 the U.S. Army spent $10,000 (worth over $20,000 today) on figuring out how to buy a bottle of: Worcestershire sauce.
