Word: squander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy of Vietnamization, a policy which through a tortuous process of inner logic, demands that we escalate the war in order to enable American troops to withdraw. He has demonstrated that American foreign policy still dictates the necessity to sacrifice American lives to ravish independent countries and to squander our resources and energies...
...goal, of course, is to continue aiming for efficiency for the majority of Americans?not efficiency for the few, as in less developed societies. But the basic idea of efficiency is that a nation must make the most of what it has and not squander its resources. To that end, the nation may have to give up some of its past great luxury of choice ?all the different makes and models that are not so different from one another. "We have always been able to afford enormous waste," says Sociologist David Riesman, "because we thought our space and resources...
...have covered every Harvard game this winter, with the exception of last weekend's debacle at Pennsylvania, and on three different occasions, watched the Crimson squander substantial leads within minutes. At Boston College, after two periods of play. Harvard led 4-2. Seventeen minutes later, Harvard was trailing 6-4, and the Eagles had done little more than capitalize on Harvard carelessness to make their comeback...