But what was once a time-wasting video game is now a time-wasting desk lamp that you can play with.
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Mark Noble was not having any of that time wasting.
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Other time-wasting habits included using Snapchat, Instagram, and video games.
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I found it exhausting, a time-wasting activity not worth the effort.
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Those women wanted to play and had no time for time wasting.
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I can also get into Words With Friends, my favorite time-wasting app.
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But Facebook didn't become ubiquitous because it's useless or facile or time-wasting.
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I deleted time-wasting apps like Words With Friends and a Hearts app.
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The whole tax reform debate is, in crucial ways, a time-wasting distraction.
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The acronym has nothing to do with time-wasting animations in your Slack feed.
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Vacuuming, dusting, cleaning the toilet ... Those tasks are a time-wasting yawn at best.
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For Geza Kovacs, our collective time-wasting on the web makes for precious data.
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Adding another regular meeting to everyone's calendar sounds like a formula for time-wasting.
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Furbizia manifests in diving, but also in tactical fouls, quick freekicks and time-wasting.
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Luckily, Netflix has a huge selection of reality programs ripe for the time wasting.
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Following the singer's notice of appeal, Lepera said Kesha was time-wasting and spinning lies.
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They should concentrate on eliminating specific annoyances, such as time-wasting meetings and pointless memos.
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The crowd has a short fuse for even the hint of time-wasting, or stalling.
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It's important to note that workplace software is far from the only time-wasting culprit.
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We knew it would be scrappy and that there would be wind-ups and time wasting.
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Since time-wasting is of the essence, it has imposed a deadline of April 1st next year.
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Time-wasting is when so many good things happen, or stupid ideas that turn into amazing ideas.
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There haven't been any time-wasting filler episodes dedicated to making the audience believe the zombies were evolving.
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Parents may have hated on that content too at the time — criticizing cartoons as frivolous and time-wasting.
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Both applications came to define an era of over-complicated animated interfaces and simple time-wasting video games.
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The result is a fun, time-wasting diversion, and as a bonus, you'll learn a bit about peppers.
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CoCo Vandeweghe received a code violation for time wasting because there were no bananas available at Hisense Arena.
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My time-wasting meandering not only felt good—it was, in ways I never could have planned, productive.
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For the directionally challenged, getting from Point A to Point B can be a frustrating, time-wasting ordeal.
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The comments typically characterize the women in the video as shallow, dumb, slutty, time-wasting, privileged, un-diverse, and ignorant.
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One Swiss restaurant has come up with a simple method of dealing with these time-wasting table hoggers: charge 'em.
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But as games become more artistic and meaningful than just "time-wasting entertainment," their breadth of content becomes accordingly important.
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FaceApp — the newest time-wasting app that lets you play with editing your face — is coming under fire yet again.
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We're so conditioned to think we should be performing all the time that we've completely lost respect for time-wasting.
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Many people dismiss it as yet another time-wasting attempt by Republicans to undermine the president's signature domestic policy achievement.
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My relaxation through my hobbies is more likely to be seen as time wasting, but a man's is more productive.
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More time thinking, less time wasting Thoroughly read the profiles of the people who you communicate with or wish to communicate with.
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He does not judge their time-wasting pettiness, so much as he celebrates the flaws that make us so tragically, wonderfully, human.
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That's more of a time-wasting move at this point, but they will kill the clock any way they can right now.
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This new tool should streamline things so they can archive all your shit-talk and time-wasting with colleagues on a regular basis.
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The technology, timeline, and budget have faced intense scrutiny, and the program was called a "time-wasting distraction" during a hearing in February.
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What's more, one study he highlights used playing the 1990s video games Minesweeper or Solitaire as examples of time wasting that fostered creativity.
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It could just be part of the daily bleed from other time-wasting activities such as Facebook, Twitter and this week's Wimbledon tournament.
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Senegalese goalkeeper Khadim N'Diaye has reset the time-wasting tactic to a wonderfully new low after his performance in the Africa Cup of Nations.
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"I kept falling into these [time-wasting] traps, and I didn't really have a sex work mentor to teach me these things," she said.
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The world isn't quite ready to let go of fidget spinners, the time-wasting stress relief that you spin around and around and around.
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It took six months to form a coalition after last year's election, and since then the government has been embroiled in time-wasting infighting.
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In some cases, personal liking can spark a good experience even if an interruption is seen as "time wasting," poorly timed, or overly long.
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Free: Android, $1.99: iOS From game developer Zach Gage, Sage Solitaire is a fun and addictive twist to the classic time-wasting card game.
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She cast the fight for a second, more progressive bill as a time-wasting indulgence that could have delayed important funding for suffering children.
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Helen must confess to her exhaustion, her despair at not being a better friend and nurse, her anger at Nicola's terrible, terminal time-wasting.
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The Portuguese was involved in a spat with goalkeeping coach Andrew Sparkes over what he perceived to be time wasting, according to The Guardian.
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The ultimate time-wasting camera app got updated with new augmented reality "stickers" that you can overlay on top of your face and other objects.
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It turns out it's very liberating to know that there isn't a pit of anxiety, FOMO, and time-wasting one tap away at all times.
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It's a perfect example of a Congress that has chosen dysfunction over function, time-wasting over action and governance, especially where the IRS is concerned.
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Feeney plausibly speculates on the contempt Nixon may have felt for the moneyed, time-wasting crowd (including Reagan's character) surrounding Bette Davis, the picture's star.
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On Reddit, an online peanut gallery formed around the time-wasting online habits of one Hacking Team engineer and his own notably weak passwords — HTPassword!
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The games on offer run the gamut from time-wasting smartphone apps to immersive fantasy worlds in which players can get lost for days or weeks.
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And the advantage is that you don't need a bunch of time-wasting pleasantries to ensure no one misinterprets your message as sarcastic or pissed off.
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"The package presented by the House's new Democrat leaders yesterday can only be seen as a time-wasting act of political posturing," McConnell said on Friday.
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One particularly fun, yet time wasting, easter egg was the ability for your pilot to walk around on the ground with a pistol after having ejected.
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The Portuguese was booked by referee Mike Dean for going over to the Southampton bench after arguing with goalkeeping coach Andrew Sparkes over apparent time-wasting.
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There were loud complaints at time-wasting tactics by the Spaniard, a bit of umpire abuse, and an unapologetic attempt to hit Nadal with the ball.
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YouTube is filled with time-wasting distractions: sports bloopers, alt-right propaganda, fitness and nutrition quackery, trick shot bros, "let's play" video game tutorials, and firearms.
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Whether you're in search of up-to-date polling information, someone to verify politician's latest soundbite, or just some politically-themed time wasting, we've got you covered.
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Mansour, until the end, doggedly defied this pressure, by refusing Taliban officials permission to participate in talks, but offering a series of excuses and time-wasting tactics.
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The misguided breadth of other social media platforms has led these companies into the seemingly intractable problems of pernicious misinformation, toxic speech, spam, time wasting, and more.
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Meanwhile, the class has evolved into a seminar on collective "time wasting" that Mr. Goldsmith has held in several countries, and it returns to Penn this fall.
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Depending on who you ask, Twitter is either the world's largest outrage machine or a brain-hacking addiction device or just a den of time-wasting frivolity.
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It does not have the deep mechanics or obligatory time-wasting that seems to power so much of what a video game "has" to have right now.
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The exercise expediency enthusiasts may be the same people who like Soylent, the meal replacement beverage for those who think eating actual food is a time-wasting nuisance.
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"I think Congressman Schiff should apologize for wasting all of our time, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on a meaningless fishing expedition," Prince said, referring to California Rep.
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Zach (originally played by Mr. Quinton) and Roxie waste no time wasting Chester, and get rid of the body by dropping it into a tank full of piranhas.
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Screenshot: MIT CSAILResearchers are teaching machines to get stuff done using video simulations, a database of chores, and a virtual home reminiscent of your favorite time-wasting video game.
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House Bill 2500 was quickly shot down by a Republican-led committee, and was a clear example of the kind of time-wasting grandstanding that sticks in Roem's craw.
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So, here's the straight skinny: The reason most people are stressed for time is that they are wasting more than half of each working day on time-wasting tasks.
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He had already chirped at the umpire when admonished for delaying play, and mockingly mimicked Nadal's time wasting tic of tugging on his shorts and tussling with his hair.
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Research shows that fewer meetings can boost employee and organizational productivity, and many other leaders have methods like Bezos' for reigning in what they see as time-wasting gatherings.
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If not, that plan sponsor could be running afoul of the rules and regulations set forth under ERISA and may be subject to fines and other time-wasting penalties.
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To raise kids who turn out wealthier, parents should proactively monitor what their children are doing and become a bulwark against time-wasting, stare-at-a-screen activities like these.
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One night, after feeling particularly annoyed with my time-wasting habit (but also not annoyed enough to stop), I felt the need to share my self-loathing with the world.
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A warning to Rafael Nadal and other notorious tennis procrastinators: The dawdling days of time-wasting between points and games are coming to an end, at least at Flushing Meadows.
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Cheap Kindle tablets from Amazon have proliferated somewhat, presumably as distractions for kids who would otherwise get fingerprints all over mom's new phone, or for ultra-compact time-wasting on airplanes.
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The format allowed Watmuff and Szekeres to return to some of the early-PC nostalgia they grew up with, they said: Simple games like Minesweeper, corny desktop encyclopedias, time-wasting doodles.
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That left a quarter-hour, 20 minutes given time added on for deliberate time-wasting by Atlético, but by then exhaustion had set in, and organized resistance rode out the pressure.
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As Jose Mourinho grew irritated, the Tottenham manager was booked by referee Mike Dean for going over to the Southampton bench after arguing with goalkeeping coach Andrew Sparkes over apparent time-wasting.
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Being a student involves learning how to prioritize, which solves the time-wasting problem, but too many are uninterested in schoolwork and put in only enough effort to get an adequate reward.
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It was a card he was given after being seen quarreling with Southampton&aposs goalkeeping coach Andrew Sparkes about what he believed was time-wasting tactics by his opponents, the BBC says.
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If I open a Twitter tab but regain my senses and close it again quickly, a pop-up informs me how many seconds I just saved compared to my usual time-wasting visit.
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"For us, there is no dialogue, it is rather a monologue, a time wasting because dialogue or talks should be between two parties in conflict," said CNARED spokesman Pancrace Cimpaye in a statement.
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An undeveloped, time-wasting subplot is thrown in involving Lucien's shy pursuit of Hazel (Christa Théret), a promising young soprano who sings at the same benefit and has all the talent Marguerite lacks.
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In a surreal moment, you're even tasked with setting up an in-universe system of beacons to access "Patrol" missions, the most shallow and time-wasting set of activities the first Destiny ever produced.
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The third installment in the "XXX" action movie franchise is busy running and gunning; it could care less about adding a time-wasting "the" before the "return" in its title, thank you very much.
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The app was created to gamify romance—after all, swiping through dozens of faces until you find a match is just a fun, time-wasting game—and the goal of any game is to win.
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But the aide was unable to provide the same assurances for a small faction of minority parties that recently split from Guaidó and initiated negotiations with Maduro that the U.S. considers a time-wasting sideshow.
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That said, the time saved using AI to automate phone tasks could also be spent on more time-wasting garbage like watching more YouTube videos or getting deeper into the dark corners of Instagram feeds.
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After a timeout, and a double-dribble violation that replays showed the referees missed, and another time-wasting foul by Auburn, Virginia got Guy a relatively open look in the left corner at the buzzer.
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And to keep your attention focused, inexpensive productivity aids like Cold Turkey, Freedom and RescueTime block the internet and time-wasting apps if you don't have the willpower to go offline or get away from Facebook.
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Multiple sources credit the Meow Wars with spawning the cascade attack, the neverending, time-wasting (and, for early Usenet users, money-wasting) posts which included back-and-forth meowing and Beavis and Butthead quotes (an alt.
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Most people know it as the quirky mechanism that launched big-league careers for Roberto Clemente, Johan Santana, and Josh Hamilton; others as the time-wasting exercise baseball executives partake in before leaving the winter meetings.
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Only 24 percent of their time was left for those responsibilities after attending to email (2151 percent of their workweek), administrative tasks (2200 percent), useful meetings (200 percent), time-wasting meetings (227 percent) and other interruptions.
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"Any bet on the meeting of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas with US President Trump in achieving any achievements for the benefit of our people and his case is a wasteful, time-wasting and marketing illusion," he said.
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NASA's Mars program has been called a "time-wasting distraction"Right now, NASA will be acting as a consultant on initial SpaceX missions, but it plans to scale down its role as the program continues, Spaceflight Now reports.
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His experiment is premised on the idea that once you remove time-wasting distractions and constrain inefficient conversation about your work, five hours should be sufficient to accomplish most of the core activities that actually move the needle.
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IFAB also approved measures that will force players being substituted to leave the field of play at the nearest touchline rather than walk across to the team's bench or the tunnel, in a bid to reduce time-wasting tactics.
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How it fits and what it's like to wearOnline made-to-measure brands are nice when they actually work, but can be a time-wasting nightmare when they're a dud — and the Sene Soho FlexTech Suit is definitely the former.
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Though an argument could be made that all the time-wasting, in-jokes and gaffes from idle reporters and editors on Twitter subtly undermine the rigorous parts of the work, newsrooms benefit greatly from the constant exposure of their journalists.
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The hard-running midfielder was part of a skilful Sweden side that came third at the 1994 tournament, and he dismissed criticism from Lionel Messi and others about Iceland's defensive approach to the game and Germany's complaints about Sweden's time-wasting.
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Normally a meditative exercise in time-wasting, Churchill's variation on Solitaire is already trickier than normal, and it's made even more stressful by a soundtrack that sounds like a cross between a military march and a battle theme from a Japanese RPG.
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I can't see the number 111, today's post, and not think about the dorm room—Burton 111, enshrined in our imaginations as "One Eleven"—that became a de facto clubhouse for me my freshman year of college, my Eden of time-wasting locations.
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So, if students lived in an environment where education was supported and encouraged; than their children would be more interested in improving and gaining more success in school, than enacting in other time wasting hobbies that will not help their future education.
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Surprisingly, even though TechCrunch is owned by not one but two enormous corporate entities — the Voltron form of which I like to call Verizaol — we are hit by very little splash from the stream of time-wasting marketing exercises that form a corporation's very being.
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As evidence, this was McConnell on the Senate floor Friday morning before the White House meeting on the Democratic proposals: "The package presented by the House's new Democrat leaders yesterday can only be seen as a time-wasting act of political posturing," McConnell said.
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" Asked about the areas of tech that investors should look at, Mellon cited biotech as a sector to watch, with its ability to "have a positive impact on human beings as opposed to a time-wasting impact on two billion people around the world.
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I suddenly want to know their secrets, what the trick is to their efficiency, in the same way that I am unable to to resist reading about some new productivity system or lifehack that will definitely put a stop to all my procrastination and time-wasting.
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This peer-to-peer scenario also makes perfect sense in the workplace, where the person across the office from you may be the exact expert you need to learn from What's more, with online education employees don't have to travel to time-wasting offsite training sessions.
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With ARCHOS, Silent Circle and Bittium all battling for market share, Hogeg's Sirin Labs is launching at a time when consumers, animated by mainly aesthetic concerns, are perhaps willing to pay more for security without compromising on usability — or giving up on the joy of time-wasting apps.
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I have played around with Snapchat a bit, but its ephemeral nature doesn't really give me the same sense of time-wasting achievement as knowing that I've sent 28,500 messages since I joined Twitter, enough to fill that book I keep telling myself I'll write many times over.
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" The group had also targeted cyber security journalist Brian Krebs' website with DDoS attacks this year (among other targets), and blogging about the arrest Krebs — who collaborated with ProtonMail in tracking the hackers down — writes: "Unsophisticated but otherwise time-wasting and annoying groups like Apophis Squad are a dime a dozen.
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Other changes to the rules set to be introduced include a ban attacking players disrupting the opposition's defensive wall at free kicks - they must now be one meter away from the wall - and an attempt to cut down on time-wasting by forcing substituted players to leave the pitch at the nearest boundary.
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You may plan to complete a triumvirate of culturally enriching experiences – IE, watching an act you wouldn't normally see, attending a talk, and going to see a band incase the members may die soon – but the likelihood is, it just won't happen, because Glastonbury is built on time-wasting detours for toilet breaks, Pieminister, taking photographs of a man dressed like Jesus, and sitting on damp patches of grass.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.) blasted a House bill to reopen the government as "a time-wasting act of political posturing," arguing that it couldn't get the 60 votes needed to pass the Senate.
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The rival factions of The Royal Deadfire Company and The Vailian Trading Company are pitted against each other by the player through dialogue options with several characters across many different islands (as well as a couple of the more exciting missions), but it always felt to me like the early 2000s were always intruding on these intricate politics with clunky combat and time-wasting walks across beautiful maps.
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Snell, ever the loyal soldier out here trying to do what's RIGHT for the team or wherever, dives for it: When the God of light and fire, the creator of the universe, all powerful and boiling over with a dark and angry rage at the depraved depths of our sin returns to annihilate the Earth and cast the souls of the unfaithful, the lustful, the unbelieving, the time-wasting—that is, you yourself and also anyone who committed even a minor infraction against the pure and perfect will of God—into the darkest depths of fiery hades, I do not believe it will be as dramatic as all that.
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