And there are stories of great talent unrealized and great wealth squandered.
Perhaps it's true that Clinton's presidency will be remembered as a series of lost opportunities — "the Great Squandering," as the historian David Kennedy recently described it to me.
Japan's stagnation, then, represents a great squandering of wealth and opportunity.The American planTo understand why this happened and assess Japan's prospects as normality returns, you need to go all the way back to the end of the second world war.
There's no better place to explore this story -- and the centuries-long saga of a great resource squandered -- than the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, which is beside Lunenburg Harbor.
Mr. Dash, presented with a cast of characters that includes the hairless gangster Jack Rose and the malevolent Arnold Rothstein (the model for Meyer Wolfsheim in "The Great Gatsby"), squanders his opportunities.
Time and time again I saw great creative ideas squandered by team meetings consisting of far too many people, taking a great idea and squeezing all the creative genius out of it, leaving a watered down message that caters to, well, almost no one.
8/10 Kenny Miller Architect of Mason's goal with astute pass and busy throughout but squandered great chance to win the game in 88th minute.
The pathos is heightened by Big Edie's bedridden singing of classic show tunes: she's a graceful master of timing and tone, a nearly great artist who squandered her chances and her life.
