Mr. Waxman said it appeared that Mr. Krongard had done nothing to investigate "wasteful spending or procurement fraud" in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the State Department has spent more than $3.6 billion on contracts.
Perhaps the fact that Mom is a cancer survivor and would like to remain so made her particularly irked that the $10 she had sent had done nothing but generate wasteful junk mail.
Nothing is more wasteful of time or demoralizing to a team than finding out after the fact that one of their recommendations overstepped their authority or violated internal compliance or government regulations, for example.
Even many on the Left now regularly dismiss government as nothing but oversized, wasteful, bureaucratic, corrupt, and oppressive, without giving serious consideration to how essential it may be to our lives.
Republican candidates campaign on the need for government to cut spending, but see nothing wrong with unlimited, wasteful spending to get them elected.
Just be glad the wretched thing was cut. 5. Giving us a story If nothing else, the long, wasteful and humiliating epic of Spider-Man reinforces a truth universally known among playwrights and, well, anyone with a degree of common sense: story matters.
As if this were not enough, it was at Livermore that Teller initiated work on Excalibur, the space-based laser which he sold to President Reagan as the ultimate shield against missile attack, and which many authoritative critics believed was nothing more than a wasteful fantasy.
Likewise some of the resolve could soften as Supervisors approach 2012 elections– union groups are among many who see this as nothing more than a wasteful corporate giveaway.
But embarrassing, bizarre and wasteful ventures are nothing new for Harrisburg.
Punishing people for their illness is expensive, wasteful and does nothing to reduce the demand for drugs.
