scorekeeping

Typical Budget "scorekeeping" is hampered by a number of arbitrary rules, which tend to cause magical drops in spending and increases in revenues.

Fiscal Titanic, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Investigators, who are trying to decipher what appear to be "scorekeeping" logs, have appealed to the public for help in putting together a timeline of Schwartzmiller's travels.

CRACKING A HORRIBLE CODE 2007

Until now, Hoffmann has been best known as the commanding officer whose obsession with body counts and "scorekeeping" may have provoked the February 1969 massacre of Vietnamese civilians at Thanh Phong by a unit led by Bob Kerrey -- the Medal of Honor winner who lost a leg in Nam, became a U.S. senator from Nebraska and now sits on the 9/11 commission.

Archive 2004-08-01 Mumon 2004

Until now, Hoffmann has been best known as the commanding officer whose obsession with body counts and "scorekeeping" may have provoked the February 1969 massacre of Vietnamese civilians at Thanh Phong by a unit led by Bob Kerrey -- the Medal of Honor winner who lost a leg in Nam, became a U.S. senator from Nebraska and now sits on the 9/11 commission.

Stupid Smear by Swiftboat Liars was debunked before it ran... Mumon 2004

But after a certain point, it isn’t really about what money can buy you anymore (diminishing marginal returns to money and all that), it is instead a kind of scorekeeping in some game you are playing.

Matthew Yglesias » 400 Families Earned an Average of $345 Million Each in 2007 2010

They complain with some merit that children cannot learn the importance of achievement when, for instance, youth sports leagues discourage scorekeeping to protect the self-esteem of the "losers."

John Backman: Born This Way? Being, Becoming, Lady Gaga and the Divine John Backman 2011

But the competitive, tit-for-tat, scorekeeping approach doesn't help anyone, especially not your offspring, who absorb and feed off this poison.

Tara Fass: The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Kids Post-Split Tara Fass 2011

But the competitive, tit-for-tat, scorekeeping approach doesn't help anyone, especially not your offspring, who absorb and feed off this poison.

Tara Fass: The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Kids Post-Split Tara Fass 2011

CBO, the scorekeeping entity normally responsible for making outlay estimates, has not yet publicly released an estimate of the outlay effects of this provision.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Wave of Corporate Writedowns 2010

These people are interested in political scorekeeping, not putting Americans to work.

Think Progress » Thousands Of Federal Workers Are Furloughed Without Pay Today Because Of Sen. Bunning’s Partisanship 2010