Word: drained
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...perennially been a dramatic final weekend between these two clubs lacked the tension of recent years, and Dartmouth’s doubleheader sweep only enforced the substantial gap between the clubs in the standings.“A chance for a winning season in the Ivies is down the drain, so that’s tough to cope with,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “We just didn’t do enough today.” DARTMOUTH 5, HARVARD 4It was just another “too little, too late?...
These arguments seem inconsequential when you take a walk along the Fletcher Cove beach. It's not the white-sanded littoral paradise of a thousand movies but a grungy, rock-strewn place. A municipal storm drain releases onto the main part of the beach, and a sign warns that the water issuing from it may be unhealthy. The ugly concrete drain structure is maligned by graffiti - "Rizzo [hearts] Jenny" - and gnats attack any exposed skin as soon as you set foot on Fletcher Cove sand. Big, bulbous, black stink bugs fearlessly investigate your feet as soon...
...Business School is well respected worldwide and, as a result, we have the resources to bring great people from the region to speak about the many impressive investment opportunities available in the region.” Rocha also cited a desire to stop a brain drain that led the best minds of Latin America to come to the United States and other developed nations. “Harvard, MIT, and other schools across the United States have Latin American students who are working on their bachelor and professional degrees,” Rocha said, “and since...
...They are already coming back. Not only because of some miracle I promised, but because of the exchange rate and the saturation of Irish labor markets. So the problem of immigration for money is not a question of Poland being abandoned by millions of people forever. Still, the brain drain is a real problem...
...engineers, businessmen, people with money or with university degrees that they can use or with family connections. You had an exodus of real capital because people have left with their life savings, all of which are now sitting in banks in Jordan and Syria. And you also have a drain of intellectual capital, which is a much bigger problem. The people who've left are the exact kinds of people Iraq needs to rebuild itself. You need to have your doctors, engineers, university professors to rebuild your country from chaos. Those are the people who have fled...