Now Serebryakov wants to chop up the surrounding forests and sell off the land, leaving Vanya with only his own wasted life to contemplate.

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If Ike gambled on the weather and lost, Overlord would be a catastrophe, and he would have wasted every single life lost that day and condemned the people of Europe to an even longer wait for their freedom, an even longer wait filled with suffering and murder.

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The long wasted years of prison life have a sobering effect on former criminal allegiances.

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But the movie's title is "Greenberg, " not "Marr, " and Mr. Stiller commands a kind of awe in his refusal to clothe the naked hostility of a character who suffers from the autoimmune disease of self-loathing. ("Life is wasted on people, " the hero says at one point.) An ardent arsonist, he has burned most of the bridges that once connected him to friends and a flourishing career.

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Standard Life sees most of the wasted money in shadow financing going to property developers.

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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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New Orleans-based companies Strike It Green and the Green Project will be recycling props, base materials, and carpeting from the Super Bowl sets and events in an effort to bring life to materials that are otherwise thrown out and wasted.

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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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Gerrard's arrival sparked Liverpool to life in the second half but they were failing to make the most of their dominance as they wasted two promising chances.

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