He said just putting the ash into pits at La Collette was not a good use of land.

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It claimed it was a "risky and speculative" development which was not a good use of scarce public funds.

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But for me, and my boring technology firm, a conference like SXSW is not a good use of my time and resources.

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Lots of folks have dumped on ethanol for not being a good use of taxpayer money, or being a boon to the corn lobby.

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To be fair, this was because I had directed him into a narrow, flame-filled corridor, which was not a good-faith use of the waypoint command.

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This would be enough to buy about 8 billion new 1971 Fiat 124 sedans, not that this would be a particularly good use of the money.

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Those who were fortunate enough not to have their minds beclouded at Harvard Law School have figured out that ripping up a perfectly good sidewalk and replacing it with a nearly identical one is not a wise use of tax dollars.

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That is reassuring, but it does not mean that the use of trade measures to enforce core labour standards is a good idea.

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Given that Freesat had been approved by the BBC Trust on the basis that it was a good use of income from the licence fee, it was "not reasonable to withhold information" about how much the service would cost, MPs said.

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