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The bank has been involved in few of the 200 or so large dams built in the past five years, but that is mainly because dam-builders of which China is much the biggest do not care for the bank's time- and money-consuming regulations, designed to ensure decent technical, social and environmental standards.
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Small firms said compliance was consuming more time and money, not less.
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You saved a life there and probably you saved a life here because that person that starts consuming coke, all that money comes here to finance landmines, destruction of the environment, terrorism, kidnapping, displacement.
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Getting claims money from your insurer for property damage is time-consuming and annoying.
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Managing forgotten passwords is a huge problem for IT departments, often consuming massive amounts of worker time and company money.
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Hard to believe how much more time-consuming it was lately to scrounge for grant money than when he had started his career a quarter-century earlier.
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We have very little flexibility to move money around the Pentagon budget without getting congressional approval for reprogrammings, which is always a complicated and time-consuming process.
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