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Yet, as a Mandarin-speaking Chinese-American, I am made to feel about not doing business in China they way Ken Griffey Jr. might have felt if he had never gone into baseball: like someone who squandered an inheritance, who failed to capitalize on a rare alignment of circumstance and skill.
In Le Monde, an article by publisher Jean-Marie Colombani said the United States had squandered its "immense prestige and capacity for action" in the Middle East and would not recover it "until such time as it forces the hand of Benjamin Netanyahu."
But Congress won't be able to impeach him if the Republican majority has squandered its authority by overplaying an arguably lesser scandal that most people think boils down to lying about sex.
Before long he had squandered his predecessor's magnificent legacy.
Stockholder profits should not necessarily be squandered on the CEO's favorite charity.