Word: fritter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...drawn from the Post Party Plan incident - apart from the fact that you should always copyedit your invitations - it's that credibility and prestige are two of the most valuable assets the mainstream media has. In attempting to monetize them, it has to be extremely careful not to fritter them away...
...addiction to fossil fuels is torching the planet, empowering hostile petro-states and straining our wallets. Meanwhile, studies by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and elsewhere suggest that more than half of our energy is lost through inefficiencies, calculations that don't even include the energy we fritter away through wasteful behavior like leaving lights on or idling cars. We're on course to increase electricity usage an extra 30% by 2030, which could require trillions of dollars' worth of new emissions-belching power plants, so it would be much better to eliminate the usage that doesn...
...weeks of blissfully ignorant labor. You see, friends, the federal minimum wage was $5.15, and the wage I had been promised was a full $6.00. $4.25 was neither of these. But alas! The worst part of this predicament was that I was stuck, unless I was willing to fritter away the rest of my summer bored out of my mind and unemployed.As an underaged high school student in a college town, I had already experienced that summer as a season of humbling mass rejection. This was the first year I could officially work, and at the outset the prospect...
...rich Russia (its leaders refer to it as an "energy superstate") in some ways is reminiscent of Nigeria, as corruption and money laundering fritter away a great deal of the country's wealth. To an extent, Russia can use its vast profits to get its way. But buying influence, even in Washington (where money goes a long way), cannot match the clout the Soviet Union once enjoyed as the beacon of an ideology with broad international appeal...
...four years of leisure provided us by a college education should be spent fruitfully. We ought not fritter away our late adolescence and early adulthood, when our romantic sensibilities are acutest, in the tedium and drudgery of practical politics—whether manning activist brigades or scribbling position papers. We should be enjoying each other’s company without trying to win votes for a future election. We should be playing sports while we still have the time and energy unavailable in the future. We should be reading, writing, and thinking about the good life?...