Word: draining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competed in one more event, the balance beam, and as the crowd gasped, whipped through two flipflops, bearing all her weight on one hand. Nadia's courageous effort was good for a 9.95. The next day she returned to the hospital and surgeons operated on her hand to drain the infection. Understandably, Nadia looked grim all week. Said she: "I have nothing to smile about...
...also dooms his proposal for a tax hike to correct Japan's mounting deficit. The deficit, combined with a high inflation rate and a sharp drop in the yen, may have grave consequences for an already strained U.S.-Japan economic relationship. Japan has already begun to stopper its yen drain. These economic pressures will certainly curb Japanese willingness to liberalize import restrictions at a time when John Connally is bellowing about letting the Japanese sit in their Toyotas on the docks of Yokohoma. The only possible Japanese concession to American opposition prevails and cuts tax breaks for big business, special...
...lest Communism ravage Southeast Asia and subvert the American ideal of global democracy, while others condemned the war as a futile waste of lives, energy, and national resources. No national policy emerged: we neither fought the war to win not to get out quickly. Instead we let the war drain American lives and national spirit for 12 dreadful years...
...that make the Citizens platform more consistent than Brown's. "A guaranteed job for everyone who wants to work" is nothing more than a Humphrey-Hawkins bill that hasn't been debauched. "Price controls" would be welcome to a majority of Americans; so would firm action to stop the drain of dollars into foreign oil wells...
Harvard Sociologist David Riesman laments the "brain drain" from science...