Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, who lost a 2010 U.S. Senate special election to Scott Brown after squandering a large lead, is considering running for governor in 2014, according to a report in The Boston Globe.
Perhaps it was squandered, in a larger artistic sense, but it still makes for captivating, and oddly reassuring, reading — it's a relief to know that, even if your life were more glamorous, you wouldn't necessarily be any happier.
Bernie Sanders squandered a great opportunity to win New York.
Comparisons with his charismatic former boss were clear and unfavorable, and he squandered what had appeared to have been a large lead.
A Miami school bus driver with a large family and an even larger jones, he squanders his paychecks and scrounges loose change from school bus seats, then loses it all at South Florida Indian casinos, mostly to slot machines, the crack cocaine of gambling.
But his party squandered a huge lead in the polls that would have produced a large parliamentary majority.
The ex-Para said he had left the Army with a large sum in compensation, insurance and other payments, but soon squandered his savings as his drinking gave way to new addictions to cocaine and online roulette.
Wollstonecraft was born into a large family in 1759, and the household had a comfortable existence until her father squandered the family's money in various failed projects.
That would squander a moment for change.
If the leaders balk, they will squander a historic opportunity.
