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More recently, at a White House prayer breakfast, Clinton said he wanted to foster a "spirit of reconciliation" and quoted the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin to the effect that time is precious and should not be wasted on acrimony and division.
Now it opines, "Some American foreign aid money has been wasted in the past.
Those remote control arms with which laboratory personnel handle toxic, radioactive, or infections substances are called waldos (from Robert Heinlein's Waldo , 1942): the title charcter, Waldo F. Jones, who has a crippling disease, invents these devices to amplify the strength of his wasted mucles.
Such policies are not only asinine, they are—and here I have found another appropriate place for the buzz word of the decade— counterproductive: the energies expended on vengeance are entirely wasted and should be channeled to changing the present system to ensure that they are not continued.
"And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail."