If all such asteroids turn out to be harmless windmills, it will have been a wasted effort.
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Atlanta missed an opportunity to move into a tie for fourth in the East and wasted a 25-point effort by Kyle Korver, who came up two points short of his season high.
Villa sunk Honduras with a spectacular first-half strike and a deflected effort after the break but Spain wasted several other opportunities, including a missed penalty from Villa.
Absent a common currency in the form of the dollar, the U.S. would still be a rich country, but far less vibrant for all the wasted effort necessary to facilitate interstate trade given 50 different floating money concepts.
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Hammering the irony home, the solution he proposed -- a "technology summit" of academics, tech companies, and content producers to develop a workable DRM system -- is exactly the sort of wasted effort Steve-O lambasted in his open letter.
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Captain Craig Bellamy wasted a chance from the spot a minute later with a poor effort saved.
Martin Petrov wasted a clear chance for Bolton and Odemwingie slashed wide with an effort late on in the game.
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.
The visitors wasted another gilt-edged try opportunity in first-half injury time, when a fine forward effort seemed to take Glasgow over the line, only for referee Alan Lewis to rule the ball was held up.
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