1.   The effort was wasted of course, and the part-time barman slumped away into the darkness taking his scotch with him.

2.   The time and cost is minimized and the need for modifications when the product is in production, wasting the effort spent on initial production engineering, is avoided.

3.   And every time the Boston offense took a run at the similarly helpless White Sox staff, Red Sox pitchers wasted the effort.

4.   But all that effort was wasted in the second period.

5.   But if the primary agenda is to redefine doping, as IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch has suggested, the effort will be wasted.

6.   But his effort was wasted as the Angels got only two baserunners as far as third base all night.

7.   But they should not waste their effort on Dalton.

8.   But the oil companies have other issues that are much more important to them, and they waste little effort on the ethanol question.

9.   Have her efforts been wasted?