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John Wanamaker, who built a department store empire in 19 th -century Philadelphia, once said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted ...
As a culture, we have tended to believe that good education is wasted on the black and brown poor--who will soon be the majority.
Now it opines, "Some American foreign aid money has been wasted in the past.
The saddest thing about Brill is that he's a genuinely smart guy who has destroyed his reputation, become a joke among his peers, and wasted a ton of cash, all for the sake of ...
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.