"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cooperstown" is full of stories, but the recurring theme is one of wasted promise, with arm injuries and alcoholism taking twin tolls on McDermott's career.
The graveyard of failed ideas in development and aid projects looks more like a giant dump filled with as much wasted promise as physical parts.
Khan Bani Saad, Iraq -- The shell of a prison that will never be used rises from the desert on the edge of this dusty town north of Baghdad, a hulking monument to the wasted promise of America's massive, $53-billion 53-billiontion efforeconstruction
The combination of changing laws, financial incentives and new technologies like "waste gasification" promises to open valuable business opportunities in the region's waste processing markets.
As he met their families, he started to take the waste of promise personally.
So it was a little disappointing to see Simmons waste the promise of that opening with an interview segment every bit as predictable and tediously over-emoted as a Stephen A Baylesskip Bayless "debate" on ESPN's First Take.
Jospin's Socialist-led government includes members of the Green Party, among them Environment Minister Dominique Voynet, who before the election denounced the $10.5 billion reactor in Creys-Malville as a "stupid financial waste" and promised to shut it down.
Government-funded research, in contrast, tends to be concentrated in projects where there is also political capital to be made, once initial investment is sunk it becomes increasingly difficult for support to be withdrawn without the damaging suggestion that funds have been wasted or promises broken.
Make up a big batch of proper stock, reduce and freeze it, and it won't be a day wasted, I promise.
When one instructor refused to shut down his classroom computers at night, Mr. Heil sent him an e-mail calculating how much money was being wasted, and promised to share the next message with the superintendent.
