"Instead of wasteful projects, the obsession with academy schools, the zany floating airport in the Thames Estuary, we must concentrate on defending public services and holding down fares".
The new rule - called the medical-loss ratio - sets a minimum percentage of premiums (80% for individual and small group plans and 85% for large group plans) that insurers spend on actual medical care instead of wasteful overhead, excessive profits and bloated CEO salaries.
It is the size of a small airplane hangar, and it is filled with plasma rocket engines that run on electricity: instead of a wasteful explosion of liquid fuel, a judicious leak of ions pushes the craft forward through a vacuum.
When the announced plant closings are completed over the next couple of years, its remaining factories will be operating at 105% of capacity, instead of the wasteful 90% they averaged in 2005, according to productivity experts Harbour Consulting.
Instead of weeding out wasteful duplication, the two banks will continue to compete, even where they have branches side by side.
"Instead of Boris Johnson's wasteful projects we must concentrate on defending public services and holding down fares.
"I think that the strategy of running a negative ad campaign instead of having constructive dialogue seems wasteful, wasteful of an opportunity and wasteful of money".
"Unfortunately, Kering Group has chosen the path of wasteful litigation instead of the path of constructive co-operation".
If managed efficiently, it can increase capacity in congested airspace, so instead of being put into wasteful holding patterns, more aircraft would arrive on time.
"Instead of more stimulus spending or wasteful earmarks, the bill includes major reforms that will help to clear the way for long-term economic growth," said Kevin Smith, a spokesman for Mr. Boehner, "a stark contrast to the meddling, micromanaging and manipulating Washington has done in the past under majorities of both parties".
The opinion polls show that almost 95% of Spaniards think that politicians should have had a better insight on how to control tax evasion and eliminating wasteful spending instead of making cuts in health, education and social assistance.
