"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, " White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said shortly after the election in November.
Standing among 40 tonnes of food piled as high as my head, it is hard to imagine that all these beans, potatoes, jams and marmalades were about to go to waste.
But if we leave it there, and do not become more introspective as a society and confront our own contradictions on race, sex, homophobia and violence, we will have allowed the moment to go to waste and failed.
Shadow education minister Karen Buck said the figures showed a jump of 100, 000 young people not in education, employment or training since the 2010 General Election and that the government was allowing the talents of too many young people to go to waste.
And we can create the best nutrition education and physical education programs in the world, but if dinner is something off of the shelf of a local gas station or convenience store because there's no grocery store nearby, all our best efforts are going to go to waste.
And don't let your kid's penchant for borrowing the smartphone to play games go to waste.
But even if a such a city-wide tech plan got off its feet, it would need to fight hard to beat the trend and not go to waste.
For once, the British may have underestimated their determination never to let a crisis go to waste.
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And second, taking a page out of Obama's White House chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel's playbook, how can Israel make sure not to let this crisis go to waste?
My go-to Saturday morning recipe is an old one that owes its pleasant acidic edge to a shot of white vinegar a substitute for what would have been sour milk in thriftier times, when cooks were loathe to let any ingredient go to waste.
In some cases, the lawyers investigating a matter become personally invested in the case, and cannot bear to see their hard work go to waste.
Although much maligned, Emmanuel's call not to let a good crisis go to waste can be taken as a crass way of saying that every cloud has a silver lining.
Dubai prides itself on its shiny image, something that the city has spent the last decade perfecting and it is not about to let all that hard work go to waste, global recession or not.
However he realizes it is still but a tiny contribution to relieving the amount of food products that go to waste.
Egelstaff hopes that the Indian authorities will act to ensure that the hard work of thousands of athletes did not go to waste.
But we're going to focus today on a couple of European names, because, with apologies to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, never let a good euro crisis go to waste.
Therefore it comes as major news that Lew Lehrman has written a book, The True Gold Standard, just out, that aims to put some oomph in the Rahm Emanuel maxim that you never let a crisis go to waste.
And to me, it's more important that this whole year (unintelligible) has been gone, not go to waste and not go for nothing.
An excellent solution, for landlords who can afford to do so, is to pay off enough of the mortgage so that the house edges into the black and no depreciation or other deductions go to waste.
Under the current, opt-in system, there are many more people who fail to sign the donor register and fail to inform their family of their wishes, even though they would wish to help others with the gift of their organs, and these people's organs may go pointlessly to waste without their consent.
But I lived in a pit village and I knew many of the people that were on strike and I knew the way these people had to go out at night to gather waste coal just to keep their houses warm over the winter of '84-'85 and the impact that had on people.
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Furthermore, the insights gleaned from the the Google investigation will not go to waste.
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This week it was clear they were intent on not letting their good work go to waste.
Brain cycles in large public companies go to waste attending to compliance issues and other cover-your-rear work.
But if consumers do not check their card statements then the new technology may go to waste.
Someone once said that we should never let a crisis go to waste.
If your recurring income is smaller than those medical costs, some of your medical deduction could go to waste.
You can only imagine the frustration of having months of hard work go to waste because of a silly mistake.
And Bentley was delighted that his wonder strike did not go to waste on a memorable night for the midfielder.
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