Absent a common currency in the form of the dollar, the U.S. would still be a rich country, but far less vibrant for all the wasted effort necessary to facilitate interstate trade given 50 different floating money concepts.
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Hammering the irony home, the solution he proposed -- a "technology summit" of academics, tech companies, and content producers to develop a workable DRM system -- is exactly the sort of wasted effort Steve-O lambasted in his open letter.
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And woe be to he who actually develops for the platform, because he may soon find out that it all became wasted effort at the next over-caffeinated random user interface change.
The amount of time and effort wasted in that organization trying to comply with this edict over the next few years was monumental.
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In the end his third effort struck the wall before Vassell wasted the final chance of the match with a shot which was too close to Myhill.
Unless every child at risk is immunised the effort will have been wasted and the virus will spread quickly throughout the world.
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Atlanta missed an opportunity to move into a tie for fourth in the East and wasted a 25-point effort by Kyle Korver, who came up two points short of his season high.
"We were very frustrated, we were concerned on behalf of the children, we felt that we had wasted an enormous amount of time and effort and not to be able to publish the report was totally unacceptable, " he said.
Villa sunk Honduras with a spectacular first-half strike and a deflected effort after the break but Spain wasted several other opportunities, including a missed penalty from Villa.
If that is the result, the U.S. will have wasted its war effort, by allowing an Iran-style government to develop next to Iran.
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Insurers say that the huge effort lavished on bug-squashing was not wasted.
Captain Craig Bellamy wasted a chance from the spot a minute later with a poor effort saved.
Yet the coalition has made little effort to attack corruption, and has wasted energy on bickering and back-stabbing, messily dismissing one would-be reforming prime minister, Radu Vasile, from its own ranks last December.
And Drogba wasted no time in making more of an impression that the struggling Spaniard, firing in an effort that left Van der Sar scrambling and a free-kick that the keeper was forced to punch to safety.
Martin Petrov wasted a clear chance for Bolton and Odemwingie slashed wide with an effort late on in the game.
It looked at the plethora of special schemes being run by the government to try and improve life in the poorer parts of England, and concluded that the clashing bureaucratic regimes of different Whitehall departments meant that a lot of effort and money was being wasted.
The one thing that could undermine this whole effort is if you had read stories the last hundred days about how this money was being wasted and the tens of billions of dollars.
The visitors wasted another gilt-edged try opportunity in first-half injury time, when a fine forward effort seemed to take Glasgow over the line, only for referee Alan Lewis to rule the ball was held up.
New Orleans-based companies Strike It Green and the Green Project will be recycling props, base materials, and carpeting from the Super Bowl sets and events in an effort to bring life to materials that are otherwise thrown out and wasted.
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