And given the way the world is at present the wasting of resources means that people die, right now.

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"Martelly is wasting the meagre resources of the country, " said Edner Rosier, one of the organisers of the protest.

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What if you could help them recognize and measure the complexity of their business complexity that was added with the best of intentions, but is wasting untold resources and undermining profits?

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Wasting resources is never good in and of itself and going into debt to do it is even worse.

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That keeps Chlamydomonas from wasting resources during hard times, increasing its likelihood of reproducing over the long haul.

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The problem of building things without an afterlife, and thus wasting resources and effort, is a perennial one for the Olympics.

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Some of his own colleagues initially heaped scorn on him for wasting resources on a gay man's scourge.

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In a speech this morning to the manufacturers' lobby group, the EEF, Mr Miliband will focus on attacking the government for wasting what resources it does have and on non-financial forms of industrial support.

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"With this second rejection by technical workers of Boeing takeaways, it's time for the company to stop wasting resources and improve its offer to reflect the value and contributions technical workers bring to Boeing, " SPEEA Executive Director Ray Goforth said in a statement.

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Speaking at the end of the Africa-Europe summit, she said it was extraordinary criticism from a government that was wasting resources on what she said was a useless border war with Eritrea.

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