The Brazilian Institute of Tax Planning calculates that a third of public funds are stolen or wasted.
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If the World Bank insisted on spending a great deal of money, much of it could end up being stolen or wasted.
Or I wasted beautiful fall weekends watching dumb football games on television.
If that word looks as though it required extreme acts of tonsillar gymnastics to produce, it is because no sound or syllable is wasted in Ithkuil.
Although a few villagers may have had one good meal, most of what they killed was wasted or sold by the operator to make even more profit.
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As the Audit Commission recently pointed out, many treatment services are wasted or ineffective because they fail to deal with the other problems - mental health, housing, social care - which often afflict the lives of addicts.
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Toyota had built into its process a mechanism to verify immediately that each step had been done correctly so that no time or money would be wasted fixing a defective product.
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Lib Dem health spokesman, Jim Hume, said these costs did not take into account the value of the medicines being wasted, or the cost of prescribing them in the first place.
Some of it is lost to inefficient harvesting, storage and transportation, while the rest is wasted by markets or consumers.
This has its own dangers: public education in Brazil is badly run and needs to be reformed before it is showered with money, or else much will be wasted.
Among the generation who as children played Electronic Quarterback, graduated to the Game Boy as teens, and lately wasted an hour or three playing some ill-conceived game on a mobile phone during a subway ride, the gaming device to own this year will be the Zodiac from Tapwave.
Regardless of the cause, no trial we experience or pain we suffer should be wasted.
Thermoelectric materials convert low-grade heat wasted in industrial processes or exhaust systems of a vehicle into electricity.
The cartons are rectangular and easy to pack, meaning more wine can fit in one container, be it a truck or a ship, with less wasted space.
And if this board has any impact whatsoever, we felt that the loss of their lives had better make a difference, or both them and us have wasted our time.
Go into the collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you they don't want their tax money wasted by a welfare agency or the Pentagon.
Now the consumer has wasted time and gas, when he or she could have stayed home and placed a quick order with Amazon.com.
Ultimately, huge amounts of these untargeted, or poorly targeted ads netted out to huge amounts of wasted money.
We have wasted no opportunity to question, stall, or otherwise delay quality measurement.
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Working at home, full or part-time, shrinks the number of hours wasted commuting and allows greater flexibility that is often critical to maintaining a family.
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This development will be a foundation for the realization of a system for capturing and converting wasted carbon dioxide from incinerators, power plants or industrial activities.
Every morning he waited for the post to arrive or for a courier to arrive with the money so he wasted his whole day.
But he hasn't wasted one moment making the case for early voting or making the case for why people should go to the polls.
The production of valuable goods and services is maximized with strong property rights when little is wasted in efforts to seize the surplus of others or to prevent others from seizing our surplus.
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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The long evening they spend together, dicing with love and the knowledge of wasted years, is a scene not to be forgotten, or denied.
Thomsen has every right to dislike any game he chooses or all games, to gnash his teeth over time he feels he wasted plowing through it.
They soon found that duct tape leaked air so badly much of the cooling and heating was wasted--and that the tape frequently shrunk, dried up or separated.
The second part of the system captures heat wasted during the first part, which usually sneaks up the chimney or otherwise vanishes unnoticed, and uses it to provide space heating or hot water.
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