Although Mr Leffler (wisely) leaves parallels to the present day implicit, he clearly has an important lesson to offer: a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
In the spirit of "a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, " catastrophic disasters like Superstorm Sandy should be seen as teachable moments to better prepare the general public and elected officials for what is inevitable: the next storm.
"The entire flexible-spending account thing is a waste of our taxpayer dollars, " says Jonathan Gruber, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former paid consultant on the health law to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The whole thing is a colossal waste of money, he complains.
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The company employs 185, 000 people to serve more than 400 million meals a year, so it knows a thing or two about food waste.
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But one thing I do not do is waste my time on silly Internet poll sites.
For that price an oilfield services giant like Halliburton, or a Waste Management might just decide to buy the whole thing.
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Sometimes these arbitrations are pitched battles with no quarter shown and the prudent thing is to go to court rather than waste more time.
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One thing shareholders can't complain about is waste at the top.
You're not going to want to waste your time watching Return of the King on this thing, but it's just fine for short stuff where often times the dialogue is just as important as what's being pictured.
"Whilst Waste Watch believes encouraging people to recycle is a good thing, there is also evidence that suggests self-rewarding people for good behaviours may encourage people only to act in the future if rewarded, rather than acting because they care or value society and the environment, " he said.
The second thing I noticed: Meals were pretty much zero-waste, with reusable plates and real silverware offered to all diners.
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You cannot even waste the word entrepreneur on them because most have probably never created a thing.
The only thing this plan would eliminate is the hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and fraud, as well as unwarranted subsidies in Medicare that go to insurance companies...
"Two years ago, people didn't like the word 'food waste, ' because people wanted to be seen as having the best, having the perfect thing, " she said.
"We made clear in our waste review that we want to make it easy for individuals and organisations to do the right thing, because a great many of them want to do just that, " he said.
For one thing, Germany will have to take back the hundreds of containers-worth of unprocessed nuclear waste it has already sent to France and Britain.
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