Word: squanderings
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...making--beginning with the assumption that he could set the game's pace, seizing his moment to step from the mottled shadow of Bill Clinton and lay out his vision for the country. Gore's moment is now. Miss it, nervous Democratic veterans say, and he could squander his chance to define the election. Worse, Gore's gaffes and missteps, made all the more conspicuous when he is virtually alone on the stage, could harden into a perception that...
...Noah D. Oppenheim is the editorial chair of The Crimson. He's hit jackpot before, but has a tendency to squander his winnings...
Harvard, despite its mundane record, is not unaccustomed to enjoying the lead in its contests. On Sept. 24, Harvard led Providence 1-0 only to squander the lead andlose 2-1. The next game, two weekends ago againstYale, Harvard fought an early deficit to take alate 4-3 lead before surrendering a goal with onlytwo minutes left and then another in overtime...
...McAllister. "Despite what Republicans say, he'll probably get the credit." Early reports from the Hill also suggest that the face-off between Republican proposals for a broad income-tax cut and Clinton's mantra of "save Social Security first" is tipping in the President's favor. "If we squander this surplus," Clinton said Wednesday, "what are we going to do when times get tough?" Just keep talking about the economy, stupid...
Mitigating the damage that these comments would otherwise have caused, was Mandela's tremendous store of political capital: he had enough of the stuff to make any other world figure envious. Still, many wondered, what could possibly have possessed the man to squander his hard-earned prestige when he was so quickly approaching the status of an icon? In the ensuing discourse, a number of explanations were proffered to account for the ANC leader's tactlessness...