Tom's wasting time.

Leaky faucets waste a lot of water.

The significance of the day wasn't lost on this Japanese Twitter user, however

Military occupation saps dignity, and grinding poverty and economic disarray sap hope.

It was once said, flippantly, that youth is wasted on the young.

It would therefore be tragic if the EU missed the opportunity to tie Kazakhstan firmly to the West.

By contrast, George W. Bush did not lose time.

It will squirt you all around and you can stay in that shower for hours and not waste water, by the way, because it recirculates the same dirty water.

Japan s new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has wasted little time in making his mark, particularly in foreign policy.

PRINCETON American officials usually spend enormous energy highlighting the process in the Middle East peace process.

On that bright Sunday morning, as spring turned to summer, voters wasted little time in dispatching Poland s communists to the abattoir.

Now, spray foam is an excellent insulator it fills in all the cracks but it is pretty high embodied energy, and, sprayed in cellulose or blue jeans is a much lower energy alternative to that.

A McCain presidency would have offered no hope for a radical break with the military swagger and crony capitalism of the Bush years, on which the bilateral relationship with India was built.

Everybody involved in this discussion should spend more time building and acknowledging good arguments, and less time telling others what they cannot say.

In the meantime, let s hope that Messrs. Bernanke, King, Trichet, and the world s other central bank governors get monetary policy roughly right, and that our politicians don t waste vast sums on ineffective fiscal stimulus.

The discrepancy between the two term, four year US presidency and one term, five year South Korean presidency has sometimes been problematic, and the respective policies toward North Korea of US and South Korean administrations have often collided. When they do, both sides must spend an enormous amount of time and effort in reaching a consensus on North Korea, which leaves the isolated North breeding all sorts of conspiracy theories.

That, at least, is the conclusion that some people have reached after Milosevic s death in a Hague prison the fact that he was able to drag out his trial for four years and still escape a verdict is considered proof that the international community is wasting its resources by putting such people on trial for their misdeeds.