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This description recognizes that as yet unalienated land might have been used as wild pasture, just as an 1867 critic of bureaucratese can complain that the Crown lands are very frequently, in Government phrase, styled the waste lands of the Crown... [though] they cannot... with propriety be called waste lands, for they are applied to the only purpose, speaking of them in general, to which they can ever be applied--grazing.
Holbrooke does not waste a lot of time on the question of whether intervening in Bosnia was in our national "interest."
8 A stoichiometry of 1.03 is typical when the FGD process is producing gypsum by-product, while a stoichiometry of 1.05 is needed to produce waste suitable for a landfill.
The narrator makes a campaign appeal, associating Clinton with higher taxes and waste.
Simpson says that the government shouldn't waste millions investigating Clinton's sex life and that Clinton should be excused if he did have sex with a young woman: "A 22, 23-year-old girl who has her mind set on a 50-year-old guy is more in control than the 50-year-old guy."