The long wasted years of prison life have a sobering effect on former criminal allegiances.
The long evening they spend together, dicing with love and the knowledge of wasted years, is a scene not to be forgotten, or denied.
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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It is only now that people here are beginning to accept the idea of a Palestinian state, after so many wasted years and lives.
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When Kodak roused itself to leverage its digital assets, it wasted years and hundreds of millions of dollars deploying them in incremental fashion such as with its Advantix system, which used digital as a preview mechanism in a film camera.
They may well have wasted two years' hard negotiating and a fair amount of political capital.
Nor is it America's fault that Russia wasted the years of high oil prices.
Worse for the victims of this supposed compassion, many will emerge with a great deal of debt as their reward for having wasted four years.
When these countries start from scratch, there has been a lot of money wasted over the years.
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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At a recent conference Mr. Ballmer admitted he thought as much as 200 man years of effort was wasted on Vista development in recent years.
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.
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).
So, to some extent, what's happened is the western military coalition has wasted the last four years or so.
Obama wasted the first two years of his administration attempting to charm the Iranians out of their nuclear weapons program.
Pichit, who had run against Krisda four years ago, wasted no time settling into office.
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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One defector I interviewed a few years ago recalled the wasted bodies, covered in vermin, stacked like cordwood at train stations.
About 60 percent of leaders agreed that owning IT infrastructure wasted resources, compared to just 38 percent two years earlier.
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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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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.
The pity is that these early years of a radical government's life are being wasted while we wait for serious structural welfare reform.
All those premium rates you paid over the years, to reach those age and sex groupings, were wasted money.
The U.S. Army has wasted an inordinate amount of money on failed technology projects over the past 10 years.
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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Billions of dollars were wasted, not to mention all of the smart people over there who spent 3 years with no return on the investment.
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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.
Gardner, 29 years old, is a superlative defensive outfielder who has been, to some degree, wasted in left field since the arrival of Granderson in 2010.
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