The most wasteful spending came from failure of care delivery.
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It's enough to make the most wasteful among us feel good about consumerism.
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There is no cutting, which is the most wasteful part of normal footwear manufacturing.
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Shoes, most specifically sneakers, are by far some of the most wasteful products to make.
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It's most wasteful to send a working vehicle that already took resources to build to the landfill.
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And by slashing the most wasteful uses of natural gas, biogas and other clean supply can satisfy the remaining demand.
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These days, however, the government flushes money down the toilet in the most wasteful ways imaginable, both big and small.
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As I worked on it, I saw how the average American, myself included, is the most wasteful person on the planet.
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Sneakers are one of the most wasteful retail items to produce, but a booming shoe industry shows no signs of slowing down.
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He also put out an annual "Wastebook" listing of what he judged to be the 100 most wasteful uses of taxpayer money.
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Now, if you look beyond the landfill, how we get ourselves and the stuff we consume around is one of the most wasteful things we do.
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Failing to follow the tenth rule, "Plan for creativity and capture these outcomes," is, by far, the most wasteful mistake my team sees business leaders make.
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The fastest growing part of the budget, interest on the debt, is perhaps the most wasteful of all government spending because it adds no intrinsic value to society.
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At its most-wasteful setting (my favorite setting), a Nebia can still cut your water use by 40 percent, as a forceful mist spews out from both the wand and the halo shower head.
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The US has one of the most wasteful healthcare systems in the world—we spend around 17 percent of our GDP on health, but experience poorer health outcomes than most other high-income countries.
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For years, the Daily Mail waged a campaign against Yegna—which was co-funded by the UK Department for International Development (DIFD)—calling it "the most wasteful, ludicrous and patronizing" aid project in Africa.
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Long before his role in the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing, Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, put three of Dr. Hu's research projects on a list of the 20 most wasteful federally funded scientific studies.
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Naturally, Dr. Hu made the attack on his work the basis for a TEDx talk at Emory University, in which he took a bow for being "the country's most wasteful scientist" and went on to argue that Sen.
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Making up just over a quarter of those questioned, casual consumers were the most reliant on convenience food and also the most wasteful out of all those questioned, displaying what the researchers described as "buy a lot and waste a lot" behaviour.
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You can buy sneakers made out of recycled plastic from the ocean, organic cotton sheets, and a whole slew of products that will give directly back to those in need with your purchase, but denim, arguably the most omnipresent wardrobe staple, is still one of the most wasteful products to make.
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FirstNet was characterized as "the most wasteful post-9/11 initiative" by the journalist Steven Brill.
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Tom Coburn, Wastebook 2010 A Guide to Some of the Most Wasteful Government Sending of 2010 , December 2010. World of Warcraft is a popular game made by the large Irvine-based Blizzard Entertainment, local to UC Irvine.
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US Dept. of Energy, "Buildings Energy Data Book" (August 2005), sec. 1.3.3 Lighting is also generally the most wasteful component of commercial use. A number of case studies indicate that more efficient lighting and elimination of over-illumination can reduce lighting energy by approximately fifty percent in many commercial buildings.
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Probably the most wasteful competitive venture by the SER was a second bridge over the river Medway between Strood leading to a branch to Rochester (opened July 1891) and to Chatham. The branch line only had a twenty-year life-span as the stations were less conveniently sited than the LCDR alternatives. The LCDR main line was however re-aligned after 1911 to use the newer bridge.White (1961), p.64.
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Since Eremenko was responsible for DARPA's drone and robotics programs, he was asked in the 2013 Nova documentary Rise of the Drones whether he was concerned about the dangers of artificial intelligence, he replied "if you were to ask ... whether the Rise of the Machines-type scenario is a real concern ... my response would be, 'We should be so lucky.' In fact, if we could get little slivers of that kind of adaptive and cognitive capability into systems, that would be a very significant breakthrough, from where we stand today." The 100 Year Starship, which Eremenko headed at DARPA, was named by U.S. Senator Tom Coburn as one of the 100 most wasteful government spending projects. Coburn specifically cited a 100 Year Starship workshop that included one session, entitled "Did Jesus die for Klingons too?" that debated the implications for Christian philosophy should life be found on other planets.
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