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"misspent" Definitions
  1. (of time or money) spent in a careless rather than a useful way

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So you can make the most of those otherwise misspent hours.
Such prodigious waste exacts multiple costs, from hunger to misspent cash.
Money was misspent but the state recovered almost none of it.
" Three years later, the New Yorker published Daum's essay "My Misspent Youth.
"We don't want our hard-working dollars to be misspent," she said.
But readers finish Corbett's book feeling that both men had misspent their lives.
Is there any real way to corroborate this horrendous story of misspent youth?
In 2011, Maricopa budget officials found that Arpaio misspent or misused almost $100 million.
Investigators are focused on whether any inauguration money was misspent, a source told CNN.
A bigger worry may be that money is becoming scarcer, and some is being misspent.
Once a rising Democratic star, Ms. Barry had faced persistent questions about misspent taxpayer money.
It's been misspent, it's been missing, it's been stolen with a lot of corrupt government.
The head of the ASF leads audits into how federal money is spent, and often, misspent.
Transnet has sought to recover via the courts money it says was misspent under Gama's leadership.
Soon after, Carson's leadership team departed the campaign en masse, amid reports of misspent campaign funds.
If federal resources go into Puerto Rico under business-as-usual conditions, they will be misspent.
Instead of spending countless misspent hours of the 21st century Googling, we might have spent them Backrubbing.
I cheated plenty in my misspent youth — but, and not that this excuses anything, I never lied.
Ultimately, Schock was indicted on charges that he misspent government and campaign money for his personal benefit.
Leader of the combattants is Luis, played by Richie Campbell, and his performance seethes with misspent rage.
The minister argued with a straight face that not a cent of taxpayers' money had been misspent.
"We are finding alarming things of how money was misspent," Mr. Koch said at his company's offices.
None of this misspent time and money found any evidence of political motivation in the IRS' activities.
The money, which often flows directly into treasuries with a patchy governance record, could be misspent (or stolen).
The disarray was compounded by the sudden departures of his campaign leadership team and reports of misspent money.
Daum is best known for her own memoiristic essays, in "My Misspent Youth" (2001) and "The Unspeakable" (2014).
There have been family feuds, corruption accusations, rows over cow vigilante violence and recriminations over statues and misspent funds.
Yet he made clear that he viewed much of the American aid sent to Africa as wasted or misspent.
Meanwhile, the report argues that NASA may have misspent some of the money it has put into these development programs.
But Bobbit has filed a lawsuit against the couple, alleging that they engaged in fraud and had misspent the funds.
We must get back to auditing much higher levels of Medicare claims to recover misspent funds and conserve taxpayer dollars.
Five Democratic senators on Friday wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly claiming that the money would be misspent.
"My Misspent Youth" considered debt, "Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House" real estate and "The Unspeakable" sentimentality.
Not to mention all the adaptations and period pieces designed to make you get all misty-eyed remembering your own misspent youth.
That report showed how political skullduggery, incompetence, and waste bedeviled both NGOs and Greece's government; seven out of ten euros were misspent.
Officials in Manhattan are reportedly investigating whether the committee misspent funds or accepted donations in exchange for access to the Trump administration.
That, combined with an excoriating inspector general report that found Dr. Shulkin misspent public funds on travel, eventually led to his ouster.
Authorities are investigating whether any of the donation money was misspent, used to improperly benefit certain individuals or came from foreign donors.
Multiple investigations revealed not only that Mortenson lied about his origin story but that he had allegedly misspent millions of the organization's dollars.
The investors asked for proof that the funds had not been misspent; unsatisfied, they hired a forensic auditor to comb through Abraaj's accounts.
It said the inquiry also was focused on whether the inauguration misspent the $107 million it raised to stage events celebrating Trump's inauguration.
Authorities looked at whether any of the donation money was misspent or used to improperly benefit certain individuals or came from foreign donors.
In 2008, a federal investigation revealed that FEMA misspent nearly $85033 million on four no-bid contracts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Sierra Leone's government has pledged to investigate any accusations but so far there have been no prosecutions related to misspent government Ebola resources.
I let my friend Audrey choose something to try on while I try to forget what I've seen and temper the misspent adrenaline.
Dozens of violations are reported to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) every year, and many reach into the tens of millions of misspent dollars.
" Wall Street Journal: "Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating whether President Trump's 2017 inaugural committee misspent some of the record $107 million it raised.
I've also tried a bunch of different USB-C docks and hubs — my Amazon purchase history is a gallery of sorrow and misspent dollars.
Arthur: In my misspent youth I considered that stuff too cheerful and never read it, so I have to take your word for it.
But the complaints were largely neglected or ignored by local housing authorities, who for years allegedly mismanaged and misspent millions of federal tax dollars.
Shulkin is facing intense scrutiny following an inspector general report that found he misspent taxpayer money on lavish travel for himself and his wife.
His argument is that the revolution was already declining in the toxic stew of corruption, misspent resources, and the economic squeeze of American sanctions.
Before the economic crisis took hold in 2008, the government spent — some say misspent — millions of euros on economic stimulus in former mining communities.
If he is right, those who regret that front seat at Madison Square Garden in their misspent youths may have a chance to redeem themselves.
Mr. Trump's inaugural committee raised and spent at least twice as much as its predecessors, but it ended in acrimony amid allegations of misspent funds.
In December, the Journal reported that federal prosecutors were investigating whether the inaugural committee misspent some of the record $107 million it had raised from donors.
In December, the newspaper reported that federal prosecutors were investigating whether the inaugural committee misspent some of the record $107 million it had raised from donors.
Critics of the Red Cross's post-earthquake work in Haiti argue that the half a billion dollars the organization raised for disaster relief was largely misspent.
One source familiar with the matter says the investigation is in the early stages and investigators are generally focused on whether any inauguration money was misspent.
In the years since Congress passed a sweeping revision of the False Claims Act, in 1986, relators have recovered sixty billion dollars in misspent taxpayer money.
The investigation turned into several separate court cases, involving fraudulent contracts and more than $170 million of public funds misspent by politicians in return for kickbacks.
I'm not too proud to admit that in my misspent libertarian youth, I embraced the idea that a well-armed populace is a bulwark against tyranny.
The Journal reported that prosecutors in Manhattan are looking into whether Trump's inaugural committee misspent funds or accepted donations in exchange for access to the administration.
A pair of House Republican chairmen are threatening to subpoena Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell for their probe into potentially misspent ObamaCare dollars.
And for the past several months, he's been in the news mostly for all the wrong reasons: desperate donors, misspent money, jokes that aren't really jokes.
There's also Misspent Marco, Dead Jeb, Brutal Ben, Crass Chris, Jumped Ship John, and Billary Hillary — a card with Hillary Clinton emerging from a Bill Clinton costume.
Reflecting on misspent days at the beaches of Spain and nights exploring Prague, Suri said, "At times, I have to pinch myself, like this is my job."
But the attorney general can go to court and seek to restructure an organization's board, oust its management, recoup misspent funds or even pressure it to dissolve.
My Misspent Youth would also be the title of Daum's first essay collection, published by the now-closed indie publishing arm of the late magazine Open City.
There's a risk the Trump administration could force the state to pay back $3.5 billion if the project misses a new deadline or if it finds misspent funds.
Despite his misspent youth, four failed marriages and battles with drugs and alcohol, Haggard had a rosy view of his own life in a 2012 interview with CNN.
Shulkin, the Veterans Affairs secretary, was the subject of a blistering inspector general report that found he misspent taxpayer money on lavish travel for himself and his wife.
I think the only thing I've enthusiastically described as "a sin"—espesh as a Protestant, never lapsed because there was nothing much to lapse from—is misspent time.
The United States Justice Department said that at least $4.5 billion from 1MDB was laundered through American financial institutions and misspent by Mr. Najib, his family and associates.
Under the local statute, a court can dissolve a nonprofit organization for a variety of reasons, including if a judge finds that it has misspent or squandered money.
Federal prosecutors are investigating President Trump's 2017 inaugural committee to determine whether it misspent some of the recorded $107 million in donations it received, the Wall Street Journal reports.
"They've misspent hundreds of millions of dollars, and they hurt their students and their teachers as a result," Rauner told reporters at a news conference in Chicago last month.
And much of the money that the United States poured into the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees and other Palestinian causes had been misspent anyway.
Her 22016 breakout essay and subsequent 270 essay collection, My Misspent Youth, is a cult classic about the pleasures and perils of pursuing a passion for an intellectual life.
Manhattan-based federal prosecutors are investigating whether some of the $107 million in donations to then President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural committee were misspent, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The SDNY is also in the early stages of an investigation into whether Trump's inaugural committee misspent some of the $107 million it raised, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The difference is that the earlier movie was steeped in youth culture, whereas the new one warms to those who have already lived, and misspent, the bulk of their lives.
She had married Harry Karl, a wealthy shoe retailer, in 12, but by the time they divorced in 229, he had gambled away or otherwise misspent his fortune and hers.
Excremental flourishes notwithstanding, that gloriously scabrous picture also kick-started the careers of its director and stars, most of whom are back to illustrate the consequences of a misspent youth.
Republicans have dismissed the notion that Trump's request was out of bounds, arguing he was merely fighting to ensure taxpayer dollars were not misspent in a country long known for corruption.
It would lead to significant hikes on job taxes, interfere with the core mission to help the unemployed, and increase all the billions of dollars misspent by the unemployment insurance system.
One person familiar with the matter told CNN that the investigation into the inaugural committee is in the early stages, with investigators generally focused on whether any inauguration money was misspent.
The move capped a turbulent five weeks in which she acknowledged having an affair with the head of her security detail, and faced persistent questions about whether she misspent taxpayer money.
United States prosecutors have said that at least $4.5 billion from the fund, known as 1MDB, was laundered through American financial institutions and misspent by Mr. Najib, his family and associates.
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's president said there may be criminal charges after an audit found the transitional government had improperly awarded land to government members and their families, and misspent $11 million.
CNN reported Thursday that Stephanie Winston Wolkoff has become a witness in the ongoing investigations into whether the inaugural committee misspent funds or accepted bribes in exchange for access to top officials.
An enhanced effort to recover these misspent Medicare dollars, and prevent them from leaving the program in error in the first place, would provide quite a significant reduction in annual Medicare spending.
But Mr. Racine said that under local law, he can try to collect funds misspent by tax-exempt organizations from the recipients of the money — in this case, the Trump family business.
In 2015, amid the early months of Trump's presidential campaign, the owners of apartments in the same building voted to fire Trump's management company over budget issues and allegations of misspent funds.
One source familiar with the matter told CNN in December that the investigation was in its early stages, and that investigators were generally focused on whether any inauguration money had been misspent.
"In short, the earlier slowdown seemed to be abating and the big headwind everyone was worried about—a possibly misspent marketing budget—looked like a nothing-burger," the "Mad Money" host said.
Having been to Coachella several times in my misspent youth, I'd say staying as far away from Indio as possible is best for anyone's overall health, even without taking unborn twins into account.
A funny, careless line like "I was just locking my bike when I thought suddenly: Rilke was the secretary of Rodin " seems darker hued when set against Sibylla's thwarted ambitions and misspent days.
Federal prosecutors in Chicago on Wednesday reached an agreement to drop felony corruption charges against Aaron Schock, the former Illinois congressman indicted in 20093 on charges that he misspent government and campaign funds.
The Donald J. Trump Foundation has agreed to dissolve under judicial supervision and to give away its remaining funds while New York state conducts an investigation into whether the president's namesake charity misspent donations.
But then you have something like Solyndra, where the government funds something that doesn't work out and it becomes a huge public relations scandal and people feel like the taxpayer money is being misspent.
Find a way to pursue your passion for its own sake, for when the act of creation becomes dependent on there being a market for it, misspent energy and human waste is the result.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top graft-buster agency recovered 332,000 yuan ($50,624) in misspent funds from the finance ministry in the first quarter of this year, according to a statement on its website on Thursday.
Tobacco giant Philip Morris has announced plans for a "smoke free future," shifting entirely away from cigarettes sometime in the unannounced future, so the Marlboro cigarette of one's misspent youth will no longer exist.
The same raid triggered a separate criminal investigation in New York into whether Trump's 2017 inaugural committee misspent some of the funds it raised from donations, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month.
Trump's appearance came after Pinchuk donated $150,000 to the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which agreed to dissolve last year as New York state investigators worked to determine whether the president's namesake charity misspent donations.
All the qualities that would make Little Edie and Big Edie indelible documentary characters are present in Beard's footage — their bickering with cats, waxing nostalgic for their misspent youths, impromptu song performances, and the like.
The results have been mixed with most of NextGen's candidates losing in 2014 and 2016, but it's unclear if that's because the money was misspent or because Republicans had strong election performances in both cycles.
Baroni and Kelly's actions cost the Port Authority $14,314.04, according to court documents, including the cost of hours misspent by Port Authority personnel and the expense of a traffic study that was ruined by the closure.
Private and governmental aid groups mobilized in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake, but relief efforts have been tarnished by charges of misconduct, including reports of money being misspent and misleading fund-raising by some charities.
While America First's operating expenses appear to be within the normal realm for super PACs, critics say the money the group has raised has been misspent on large consulting contracts and high-cost events with little payoff.
When he's not traveling to France or working with clients, you can find him cooking, cycling or maybe sitting in a theater, a venue familiar to him from a misspent youth touring France with a Shakespeare company.
It is sent to organizations with shallow connections in the country, to be managed by and for the benefit of non-Haitians, soaked up in overhead or misspent on projects that languish and development that never comes.
"I am murderous with my own passing," she says in Marina Carr's "Woman and Scarecrow," a blistering beauty of a play that rages with regret and pitch-black humor at the wasted years of a misspent life.
It is loosely based on Welsh's novel "Porno" and is a sequel to "Trainspotting" in which the four anti-heroes - Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie - question their loyalties and grapple with the consequences of their misspent youth.
The responses show that Mr. Pruitt is prepared to push back hard against accusations that he misspent taxpayer money and to blame both career and political staff members as well as his security detail for myriad spending decisions.
"I've faced a witch hunt from an organization far more interested in punishing those who leaked documents than in trying to recover millions of wasted public funds and pursuing the officials who misspent that money," Mr. Macías said.
But relief efforts have been marred by various charges of misconduct against those sent to Haiti to help, including multiple reports of misspent money, as well as allegations of misleading fund-raising and excessive secrecy by some charities.
At the same time, critics say the agency has misspent money and failed to rein in soaring costs on projects like East Side Access, a new train station for the Long Island Rail Road under Grand Central Terminal.
These special interests have been allowed to chip away at the effectiveness of Medicare integrity programs — now only 0.5 percent of Medicare claims are even reviewed for billing accuracy – successfully preventing the recovery of billions in misspent Medicare funds.
On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that federal prosecutors in New York have opened a criminal investigation into whether the inaugural committee misspent money and whether donors gave in return for political favors, citing people familiar with the matter.
There is also concern that money which was supposed to fund projects that would conserve the Murray-Darling is being misspent, allowing irrigators who have sold water to the government to replace it with flows to which they are not entitled.
Not completely, in the sense that many of the deficit-reducing policies I supported — means-testing entitlement programs, eliminating tax breaks for the wealthy and upper middle class — I still support, because I think the money involved is presently misspent.
And at the same time, on standouts like "Pray" or "Pale," the music and melodies burst out into colossal shimmers that grasp at something more ineffable, more cosmic, beyond the banalities of human experience of just another misspent Saturday night.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - More than 4 billion euros ($4.3 billion) of European Union funds were misspent last year, EU auditors estimated in a report released on Tuesday, which highlighted poor checks in receiving states on how the bloc's funds are invested.
One person familiar with Mr. Kushner's thinking denied that Mr. Trump's son-in-law had said there was a formal review, and said he had told the president that despite years of investigations, nobody has ever found that money was misspent.
On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that prosecutors at the Manhattan US attorney's office are in the early stages of a criminal investigation into whether President Donald Trump's inaugural committee misspent some of the $107 million it raised from donations.
On a separate front, federal prosecutors are reportedly investigating whether Trump's inaugural committee misspent some of the $22019 million in donations it received, opening a new front in the legal onslaught for Trump — one that reportedly originated from documents seized from Cohen.
Shunning the country's traditional alliance with the United States, Correa turned instead to China, a decision that, as The New York Times has documented, ended in billions of dollars being misspent on Chinese-built hydroelectric dams that don't actually work at full capacity.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors are investigating whether U.S. President Donald Trump's inaugural committee misspent some of the record $107 million it raised from donors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people it said were familiar with the matter.
I feel a lump in the back of my throat because words cannot capture the magnitude of our loss, not only of my own loss, but the loss of color in a world deprived of her bright gaze, her misspent creativity, and irresistible fantasies.
The audit that was supposed to uncover every misspent dime only uncovered less than $1 million in potentially inappropriate expenses — ordering just a third of that number to be payed back, only to see that number knocked down in arbitration to just under $200,000.
Authorities are investigating whether any of the record $107 million in donations for the inaugural was misspent, used to improperly benefit certain individuals, or came from foreign donors in violation of campaign finance laws that prohibit foreign money in US elections, people familiar with the inquiry said.
But if you misspent your youth smoking and eating poorly or have a family history of cardiac disease, you might want to talk with your physician about having your heart assessed, Dr. Roberts says, even if you have completed a marathon or two, or even 100.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday struck out at a U.S. territory facing the destructive threat of Tropical Storm Dorian and financially limping under a massive bankruptcy filing, saying that Puerto Rico has misspent federal funds it received to help recover from devastating hurricanes in 2017.
Her statement implies that this lawsuit was frivolous, but the suit, filed when Bennett was still a teenager, could also be read as a report of child abuse by a young actor; Bennett would not have been the first child star to have parents who misspent or co-opted his earnings.
He was the co-founder and vice president of the now-defunct pan-European group called the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe, which was formed in collaboration with other right-wing parties in 2015, and the following year was found to have misspent more than 500,000 euros ($579,000) in European Union funds.
I was following a lot of this stuff over the internet as a rabid fan hundreds of miles away physically and a millions miles away culturally, wishing I could just breathe the same garbage-scented air as these guys, because TV on the Radio was the band that I had been waiting most of misspent adolescence for.
" In its most lucid moments, "Severance" evokes traces of, if not Meghan Daum in her "misspent youth," then the essay "Goodbye to All That," when a young and equally bemused Joan Didion looks at gleaming kitchens through brownstone windows, considering New York not as a place of residence but as a romantic notion: "One does not 'live' at Xanadu.
Federal prosecutors in New York are reportedly probing whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's inaugural committee misspent donated funds from the record $107 million it received for the 2017 event.
"The 'task force' is comprised of some of the President's staunchest protectors, who have misspent American taxpayers' dollars to undermine the Special Counsel's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, even after the U.S. Intelligence Community and the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence both confirmed that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election for the purpose of electing Donald J. Trump," he added.
Many have speculated that Veteran Affairs Secretary David ShulkinDavid Jonathon ShulkinPress: Acosta, latest to walk the plank Senior Trump administration official to leave post next week Trump sent policy pitch from Mar-a-Lago member to VA secretary: report MORE could also be on the hot seat following an inspector general report that found he misspent taxpayer money on lavish travel for himself and his wife.
Read more: Michael Cohen emerges as a valuable asset as prosecutors open a criminal probe into Trump's inauguration spending On Thursday, the the Wall Street Journal reported that federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York were launching a criminal probe into whether the Trump inaugural committee misspent some of the $107 million it raised and brokered access to the administration for top donors.
Many have speculated that Veteran Affairs Secretary David ShulkinDavid Jonathon ShulkinPress: Acosta, latest to walk the plank Senior Trump administration official to leave post next week Trump sent policy pitch from Mar-a-Lago member to VA secretary: report MORE could also be on the hot seat following an inspector general report that found he misspent taxpayer money on lavish travel for himself and his wife.
Shulkin, the remaining cabinet holdover from the Obama administration, had been under fire for months, mired in investigations into whether he misspent taxpayer money, and fighting off subordinates who he insisted were engaged in "subversion," undermining his leadership and trying to advance the privatization of the VA. Privatization is a divisive issue at the agency, and it was not always clear what side people were playing.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are looking into whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's inaugural committee misspent funds or accepted donations in exchange for access to the administration, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
But if hard-working New Yorkers had a better insight into how much of their income is being siphoned into public coffers, beyond what they pay in ordinary income and sales taxes, if they knew how these fees were misleadingly labeled, and if they knew better how the resulting revenue is spent and misspent, more would undoubtedly demand change and greater visibility on how these fees are collected and spent.
Think about blockchain like this: There will be huge failures and misspent money — and yes, scams (the Securities and Exchange Commission can hardly keep up with the number of fraudulent players out there), but a decade from now, when you look back at 2018, it's more likely than not that blockchain will be embedded in our day-to-day lives in ways that, today, we can't even imagine.
Not "wasted" time, because watching time burn after the Diptyque candle on your self-care altar catches the dry corner of an hour or a day can be the most luxurious pointlessness (a pillow-topped nihilism, a rarefied moment of sanctioned privilege-bukakki), and not dumbtime, like peeing and cleaning and grooming (the reason we made skincare into church is because skincare was so boring), but misspent, like scrolling, like monkey-minding, like doing everything you can to get away from the wildflowering part of yourself, and from the moment, so, from time.

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