In a very uncomfortable way, Sandy points out the dangers of our devotion to economic efficiency: when you engineer your economy to cut out waste, you design with lowest costs in mind, and redundancy is eliminated.
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Aside from stopping hanky-panky and waste, you'd think that the investors' champions on these boards would push for better performance.
We in the UK are having the same sorts of arguments about recycling of domestic waste that you are having.
Do you waste time lamenting on your 3 day time, or do you blow away the faster competition by having a much better ordering system, world-class customer service, top quality products, and clever packaging that delights customers?
If you waste ink stating the obvious ("Use only as directed"), you will lose the reader before you get to the important things.
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.
If you always look for the next exception, you waste a lot of time.
You can imagine how your agent will feel about you if you waste his time that way.
You may be surprised how many things drop off your want list before you waste money on them!
How much energy and how many dollars do you waste trying to deliver values that customers find insignificant or irrelevant?
Why waste years when you can do something in months?
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And you can get at waste, fraud, and abuse, and you can reduce the cost of medical care while still protecting our seniors.
"You might get people who say it was a waste of money, or you might get people who say they enjoy the sounds, " says Joshua Ely, a high-school senior strolling the boulevard.
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"This is more evidence that if you root out all the waste and wild overspend in local government you can protect frontline services, " he said.
You can waste time looking at hundreds of thousands of rocks and not find anything.
"The way we look at it, you can waste energy or not waste energy, " Boesel said.
Getting an appraisal is a waste of money since you don't need it to list your home.
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The 519 Lego Technic pieces come in half a dozen nonresealable bags, forcing you to waste time sorting and storing.
Every frugal person will tell you this is the biggest luxury on which you could waste your money.
Satellite zoom-ups are driving the popularity of real estate upstart Zillow.com, where you can waste hours tracking down how much your neighbors paid for their homes (and what your childhood home now is worth).
You would then waste less time and energy stepping to and from the haystack.
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You cannot even waste the word entrepreneur on them because most have probably never created a thing.
Level up and lay waste to formidable opponents as you learn to dodge, block, parry, and punish titans with the tip of your finger.
"It is our hope that submission of the information will help you avoid the waste of time and taxpayer funds on unnecessary inquiries, " Addington said.
Shaking the sticks at each other from opposite ends of the country for two hours seems like a monumental waste of time, if you ask me.
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If you want to waste a good hour of Internet time, take a look at some of the discussions at online predictions markets such as InTrade.
I've fought the big spenders in both parties, who waste your money on things you neither need nor want, and the first big-spending pork-barrel earmark bill that comes across my desk, I will veto it.
If you find a grant that you believe is a waste of your taxdollars, be sure to record the award number.
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