Not surprisingly, she was horrified to hear of my wasteful ways.

NPR: Mastering Miso's Mysteries

Firms are being squeezed, in one direction by the country's debilitating recession, and in the other by regulatory reforms that punish many of the old, wasteful ways.

ECONOMIST: The land of disappointments

While savings rates typically spike during recessions, there is every indication that we have reverted to our old wasteful ways after being temporarily scared straight in 2008 and 2009.

FORBES: Cold Hard Reality: You Must Save For Retirement

The biggest names in the business have their brightest engineers rolling out ways to unify the great hardware hodgepodge, rationalize wasteful resources and automate the labor-intensive side of technology.

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While he has ideas about how to prevent this, I think given more time and freedom most Americans would elect to spend it in ways that the very same liberals who argue for 15 work weeks would find objectionable and wasteful.

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