The long wasted years of prison life have a sobering effect on former criminal allegiances.
Nor is it America's fault that Russia wasted the years of high oil prices.
The long evening they spend together, dicing with love and the knowledge of wasted years, is a scene not to be forgotten, or denied.
When these countries start from scratch, there has been a lot of money wasted over the years.
Obama wasted the first two years of his administration attempting to charm the Iranians out of their nuclear weapons program.
Will the new CEO continue down this path, or chart a new course from scratch, rendering the last two years wasted time?
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I'm also issuing a new goal for America: Let's cut in half the energy wasted by our homes and businesses over the next 20 years.
Most privately owned vehicles anyway end up on the scrap heap when 14-17 years old, so part of the spending would be wasted.
Obama had absolutely nothing to do with the causes of the financial meltdown, but he wasted two precious years being misled by Summers and Geithner as to how to respond to it.
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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But if GM goes out tomorrow and buys a jet for its executives, shareholders might as well dump their stock now because it means all the progress the company has made over the past three and a half years has been wasted.
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Needless to say, Gates wasted years defending his company, and when the DOJ ruled against it, I sent Gates a copy of Atlas Shrugged.
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Mr Blair comes close to conceding that he wasted his early years in power, imagining the public sector could be reformed from the centre: he cites inexperience in his defence (astonishingly, being prime minister was his first and only job in government).
All those premium rates you paid over the years, to reach those age and sex groupings, were wasted money.
And the trouble is, for example, we now see the highest levels of waste we've seen for years, ten billion pounds a year wasted.
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Over the past six years Cincinnati Children's has cut down on common errors, forgotten medicines and wasted efforts that squander resources and hurt patients.
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