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...venerable and illustrious Corporation has no reason to squander precious good weather on impecunious undergraduates such as ourselves...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Rainy | 9/24/1994 | See Source »

...alarmed at the stripping of the nation's forests. General Vo Nguyen Giap, the legendary architect of North Vietnamese military strategy during the wars against France and the U.S., has reportedly remarked to visitors that Vietnam did not fight for decades to gain control of its resources only to squander them once it was independent. Indeed, a people with the will to fight a superpower should have the ability to protect Vu Quang and its many glories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ancient Creatures in a Lost World | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

Book Excerpt: Completed just days before he fell ill, Beyond Peace gives Nixon's critique of our times amid reminiscences about the mighty that he battled and worked with. Above all, he urges Bill Clinton not to squander America's world leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...lost N.F.L. football last month, and the Fox network won it. What Fox won, though, was the right to spend $399.5 million a year on games for which CBS has been taking in around $200 million a year -- which means Fox has agreed out front to squander tens and probably hundreds of millions of dollars during the next four years. The deal, Fox's Rupert Murdoch blithely concedes, "will certainly be a loss." But these days in the televi -- that is, information superhighway -- business, the iffy expenditure of billion-dollar sums is required in order to be considered visionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectator the Agony of Victory | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

...There are no Michael Jordans out there," captain Barry Pierce said after the Ohio State game, a biting loss that saw Penn squander a 12-point halftime lead. "We feel confident that we can compete with any team in the country. There are no moral victories this year...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: It's Cardiac Time: Close Shaves for M. Cagers | 12/10/1993 | See Source »

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