His colleagues, seeing his swagger and mindful of his tendency to talk a good game, gave him the match ball with the signatures of each of those who helped him score his first European hat trick, and then promptly started to tease the center forward about the bagful of chances he squandered Saturday.
The idea would be to prevent the proceeds being squandered on day-to-day spending, which – sadly – is what happened to the revenues from the North Sea.
"That's a way of making sure this money is not squandered on day-to-day spending but invested in the long-term economic health of the north to create jobs and investment there".
It's easy to squander your day at work.
N.T.S.B. rail investigators are trained to minimize the amount of time they need on scene, so the process of debris removal and track repair can begin as quickly as possible — every day that a company can't run trains on that track is considered to be a day squandered.
The appealing qualities of the period's literature — its humor, its frankness about sex and power, its omnivorous curiosity about humanity and the world — can be squandered, by present-day revivalists, amid defunct slang, semicolon dashes, and promiscuous capitalization.
For anyone who has squandered an entire Saturday trying to make Ms. Stewart's marshmallows, it's hard not to be skeptical of the new magazine's quick and easy mantra.
A truly omnipresent commissioner would also find a way to watch Tom Glavine try to win his 300th game tonight in Chicago, and might even have split himself, parameciumlike, to commiserate with Christine Glavine as the Mets' bullpen squandered the lead Tuesday night in Milwaukee.
The Islanders squandered two power plays Monday and are 1 for 10 in the series.
The Mets had numerous opportunities to win this four-game series, but squandered them early in Thursday's game and settled for a split.
