The Obama administration squandered several months resisting Mr. Schneiderman's insistence on a broader investigation, raising questions about its willingness to now get tough with the banks and bankers.
Mr. Kan faces an uphill task in trying to win back the public support that Mr. Hatoyama had squandered in months of indecision over the fate of an American military base.
The Met unit squandered 18 months attempting to trace Szymon Serafinowicz, a collaborationist police chief who was the first suspect to be arrested, because his name was misspelled on their lists - even though the correct version was in the phone book.
It also meant long months seemingly squandered as the bill sat in Max Baucus's Finance Committee.
This was the man who built a solid record and shiny reputation as a hard-charging attorney general, then squandered it in 14 months in the governor's office.
Two goaltenders were strafed silly; Dave Poulin, their immensely valuable center, was lost to a knee injury and the home-ice advantage for which they had labored with striking discipline and desire for seven months was squandered.
We see why "Doctor Dolittle" heads inexorably off its cliff, as six months are squandered trying to teach a chimp to cook bacon and eggs in a frying pan; as hundreds of animals trained in California have to be quarantined, much to the filmmakers' surprise, upon arrival on location in England; and as the poor rhinoceros contracts pneumonia.
Israel's coalition government requires cabinet approval of a construction moratorium in the West Bank, and for Mr. Netanyahu to attain that support, he must do so against the backdrop of the recent 10-month moratorium squandered by the Palestinians.
In recent months Argentina has squandered a big chunk of its foreign-exchange reserves in a doomed defence of the peso, which eventually fell by about 20%, despite the government's fitful efforts to curtail capital outflows.
The intransigence and self-interest of Iraq's politicians over the past eight months may have squandered the country's last opportunity to build a truly democratic political system.
You come to terms with how many moments, days, months have been squandered.
