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Director Joe Dante is chided for wasting realistic special effects and the voices of Tommy Lee Jones and Ernest Borgnine and for failing to reprise the biting humor of his magnum opus, Gremlins . Critics dwell on the irony of the late Phil Hartman's character getting caught in crossfire.
I've been through security countless times at countless places, and I pride myself on wasting the least amount of time.
]. As only the earlier letters were gradually becoming available, it is amusing to note, in the correspondence published in Notes and Queries , Replies evoked by Queries that direct the questioner to stop wasting space in N. and Q. and go look up the answer in the N.E.D.
The cynical spin: Anyone can succeed if he stops wasting his energy on others.
Libertarians say America should stop wasting money on imperial power, and cultural conservatives say America should stop exporting its horrible values to the rest of the world.