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Stories of wasteful shoots abound: the matching seaweed that had to be flown from California to the Caribbean for a fashion photo; the Annie Liebovitz Vanity Fair cover shot of Arnold Schwarzenegger that reportedly cost $100,000; the Vogue shoot in Africa in which, an ex- Vogue editor claims, the photographer and his huge entourage wined and dined to the tune of "hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Governments may be wasteful in managing money, but the only evidence GS provides is in the story of Louis XV, who, when accused of spending too much, said, "After me, the deluge."
Donations feed its wasteful bureaucracy, not starving children.
3) Many analysts regard Oracle's wager on network computers (an alternative to PCs) as a wasteful distraction.
War is expensive and wasteful in terms of human life as well as economics.