At that point, the stock sold off on fears that this value would be frittered away.
The implication is that Mr Powell's achievements could be frittered away without his good counsel.
Half the capital was frittered away, he says, and now he will never let anyone manage his money.
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But here too, the powerful legacy of that strike is being frittered away in this new era of engagement.
These can be frittered away, or they can be used to tackle deep-seated problems and invest in future growth.
The Allies constantly lost strategic pieces of real estate and frittered away elite forces trying to gain useless, oft-untakable objectives.
What can leaders do to regain the trust they have frittered away?
Without marketing, even the fruits of excellent research can be frittered away.
The third is to be certain that the temperature gradient which that badly conducting material creates is not frittered away by poor design.
"Sustainable sources of new funding are excellent news for the NHS, but it should not be frittered away on waiting lists, " she said.
Cuba long ago defaulted on billions of dollars in loans from European and Canadian banks--money it borrowed despite the embargo, then frittered away.
First, the Germans grew anxious that their tax euros were being frittered away, and their savings might be inflated away as their grandparents' were.
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"The government needs to ring-fence some money that's dished out to ensure it's spent on road safety, not frittered away on some council initiative, " he added.
The goverment's promised extra cash for the NHS should not be "frittered away" on waiting lists, according to the chief executive of a leading health research charity.
His answer: Once Goldman starts "walking around saying everything is just great, " it will become a Harvard Business School case study on how a company frittered away its franchise.
But they also recognised that Mr Icahn really did lack an alternative strategy, and that he had, by saying as much, frittered away any remaining bargaining clout with Microsoft.
After arriving in office with a thumping mandate, Mr Orban has frittered away time and energy on peripheral issues, such as a new media law detested by believers in free speech.
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Instead, Chrysler frittered away its resources on make-believe.
Like Greece, the other four bail-out countries would gain from the swift improvement in competitiveness that currency devaluations would achieve, provided credible policies were pursued to ensure it was not frittered away in runaway inflation.
Send money to these people and you can be sure that only a small portion will be frittered away soliciting you for more, and the bulk of what's left will be invested in a single-minded drive to find a definitive cure for juvenile diabetes.
That is because they are targeting the financial support explicitly at newsgathering rather than pouring it into the general budget where it may be frittered away on expense-account lunches and the like, or on trying to keep alive an increasingly obsolete technology, paper publishing.
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At the same time, it became clear that the lock-box was popular with voters, who decided they did not want their contributions frittered away on current spending (no one pointed out that in fact this is not what happens: the budget debate does not affect the rights of pensioners or the status of the trust fund).
The money was supposed to be spent on bus fares, books and the like, but some recipients have frittered it away on fripperies such as make-up and mobile phones.
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