Traditionally, big banks' job was to funnel money to companies, not to waste their time on the lowly individual customer.

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Traditionally, the job of big banks was to funnel money to companies, not to waste their time on the lowly individual customer.

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They know better than to waste their time on social media.

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Let us hope that Europe's political leaders are too aware of the myriad challenges confronting them in world politics to waste their time and energies once again on institution building and introversion.

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It is a sad situation that many of today's students do not want to waste course time on something that is not perceived as advancing their careers.

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Its legendary operational drill entails everything from training drivers to hold their keys on a pinky finger so they don't waste time fumbling for them in pockets to asking employees to clean off desks at day's end so they can be clear for takeoff in the a.m.

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Because Hispanics in the US are not a homogeneous community, they waste time debating which of their mother countries has more clout in the US, rather than getting on with it and investing in themselves.

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South Korean cellphone maker Pantech says what we've been dying for a cameraphone manufacturer to say for months now: that they're not going to waste time competing with LG and Samsung in the megapixel race and instead are going to focus on their energy on making their cameraphones easier to use and integrating other features into handsets.

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