Word: squander
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...course, fatuous or cruel to call upon the poor to make sacrifices. They don't have much that they can squander in that direction. But in the broad American middle class, and in the enormous generation that came of age in the '60s, that fought on both sides of the Viet Nam question, there is a reservoir of latent idealism waiting to be tapped. Gary Hart almost found it. Mondale and Ferraro may be able to do so if they are sufficiently imaginative and creative to devise the forms into which that idealism might be poured...
...than usual. Biggest gripe: slowness in installing new lines. The central message in most of the mail has less to do with actual shortcomings than with a changing attitude toward the phone company. Says an FCC staffer: "People feel the phone company is less friendly. If the new companies squander the service image that AT&T gave them, it will be very expensive to rebuild...
...biggest threat to American business is not Japan. It is pennywise, pound-foolish executives like William Agee who squander money on wasteful corporate mergers. For him to be skewered by his own ambition is poetic justice...
...fiscal years; a national debt that now tops $1 trillion; interest on that debt, at $83 billion a year, which exceeds the total of all federal spending 25 years ago. These numbers, they insist, prove that Congress and the White House cannot resist the pressures from special interests to squander the taxpayers' money unless a prohibition is written into the Constitution. Says Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, the amendment's chief sponsor...
Throughout the game the hoopsters constantly approached the Bulldogs but the lost the momentum before taking the lead. Four times in the second half, Harvard reached its way to within two points of the Eli only to squander its attempts and fall back to a five or six point deficit...