Such branches can cause a processor to waste valuable time dealing with the ancillary book-keeping that comes with every branch.

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If your office is cluttered or disorganized, you may waste valuable time searching for papers and phone numbers, or you could miss important deadlines, Burton Ways says.

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The second step is overcoming the misconception that creating a paper trail is a waste of valuable time.

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You look at the clock, 15 minutes have passed since you started - do you end it here and now or do you hold, so as not to waste that valuable time already spent.

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He said the process had been "a shambles" and a waste of teachers' valuable time.

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In the rambunctious popular press, however, he is portrayed as a nuisance whose presence in Britain will burden the taxpayer and waste the security services' valuable time in surveillance.

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