With regulations, limited human and financial capital are being wasted on achieving compliance with profit-sapping rules, as opposed to all forms of capital being directed to their highest, most productive, and profitable use.

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The embryo defenders say each of these microscopic balls is a human life that shouldn't be wasted.

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For one thing, it signals that these companies are finding ways of using these new technologies to make their medicines more effective --making for better odds in getting Food and Drug Administration approval and reducing money wasted testing drugs that won't work in human beings.

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Judge Andrew Patience QC said "the life of a happy, bright, talented boy was wasted" and described the case as an "appalling human tragedy".

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Human agency will be undermined, and resources will be wasted.

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Regardless of the time wasted, no company can easily afford the time and cost of human resource issues or even liability concerns when employees are faced with unwanted content or personal privacy boundaries are breached.

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Every moment not spent refining his technique or in some way expanding his knowledge of human nature and how to exploit it is, to his mind, time wasted.

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