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Programs like "All Star" are colossal wastes of time that make teen-agers hate school because they emphasize exactly what they attempt to eliminate.
Specifically, microcosms with a lower horizontal surface area to depth ratio will have an adverse effect on developing mosquitoes because of lowered exchange of gases, which may increase growth of anaerobic bacteria that produce methane or hydrogen sulfide (CJP, unpublished data), or allow accumulation of mosquito wastes.
Former Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair Alan Blinder and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers Joseph Stiglitz argue that: 1) the estate tax fails as a redistributive measure because rich people have become too good at circumventing it; 2) the considerable effort put into circumventing the tax wastes economic resources; and 3) the tax encourages consumption, instead of savings and investment.
cleanup costs from federal operations that yield hazardous wastes, including defense facilities and weapon systems;
She's clearly forgotten upon what her higher financial status rests, though the friend wastes no time reminding her.