And many people will squander valuable time to get something free.The sudden ubiquity of this research has rendered Homo economicus a straw man.
If you're saving up to buy a new video game, then you can't afford to squander valuable cash on candy.
But Congressional Democrats retorted that President Bush had squandered valuable time after his re-election in 2004 by pushing for an overhaul of Social Security that would have allowed people to channel payroll tax contributions to private investment accounts.
The Treasury Department's surprising turnaround on the issue of buying stock in banks, which has now become its primary focus, has raised questions about whether the administration squandered valuable time in trying to sell Congress on a plan that officials had failed to think through in advance.
There simply wasn't all that much to announce this year, it felt, and while that would've allowed Google to more clearly lay out its vision, it instead squandered valuable keynote time on talking about previously announced YouTube features that few people in the audience cared about.
The film squanders valuable time on several undeveloped subplots.
The movie squanders valuable time with repeated scenes of the young man shivering from the cold as he paces his cell, awaiting the verdict.
This squanders valuable fish populations and weakens ocean ecosystems, making them more vulnerable to problems like pollution, natural disturbances and climate change.
