Word: squander
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True, the game at times seemed to be as rough as Monday's Bowl games, but the calls were often illogical. All this resulted in Harvard going to the line 22 times in the second half, an opportunity that it did not squander...
...find her own way home," Cathy recalls. (An agency spokesman says that she is unfamiliar with the case, but that the standard response is to "do what we can" to help an au pair return home.) Instead the Lynches helped Saskia make her travel arrangements. Then, not wanting to squander their nonrefundable program fee of roughly $2,700, they demanded a replacement. This time, they got a 19-year-old Swede who was all the agency had promised: an English- speaking au pair who provided 12 months of flexible, dependable child care in exchange for room, board, a $100 weekly...
Over the years, the Undergraduate Council has devised increasingly innovative ways of losing or wasting student money. Their ability to squander the funds of their constituents is rivaled only by that of the Federal government...
...Rourke serves up his witticisms with plenty of statistics that support his views, and a reader might reasonably assume that he has undertaken exhaustive research. In fact, the book betrays a disturbing ignorance. The World Bank, for instance, does not squander money by making loans to poor nations "that will be paid back when the Pope sits shiva." Were it only so -- then the bank might stop making its ecologically dubious investments. Much of the recent criticism leveled at the institution has been that it makes too much money from those loans, not too little...
...Pamela Harriman squander her stepchildren's fortune...