Because of the explosion in federal spending, the opportunity for fraud and waste at taxpayer expense is greater than ever.

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Through the cloud, an IT organization can have all of the benefits of a hot backup site without the expense and waste of underutilized compute and infrastructure resources.

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Critics of existing scrubber technology however point out that the technology only removes the toxic chemicals from the atmosphere at the expense of depositing them in the ocean as contaminated waste water.

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That said, Waste Management's size is letting it gain customers at rivals' expense, and here and there permits it to bump up prices, especially on landfills it operates.

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They leave behind unexploded munitions, toxic waste and polluted groundwater, all of which must be cleaned up at military expense before being handed over for civilian use.

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RWM's members have left in the past year, alleging that the committee was focusing on public relations at the expense of hard science and wasting time on outlandish options such as firing waste into space.

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Common causes of slipping margins include increased product costs, increased shipping expense, finance costs, sales and discounting or inventory shrinkage due to theft or waste (food business).

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The Old Bailey heard the material - which came from waste collected by 30 councils - had been shipped to Brazil by three companies to avoid the expense of sorting and cleaning it in Britain.

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