Word: drain
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...contrary, the council maintains, the family's function has dwindled ever since the 18th century, when the group acted as a self-sufficient agricultural unit. Then, chores performed by children contributed to the economic well-being of the family; now, by contrast, kids are an enormous drain on their parents-each costing, by conservative estimate, at least $35,000 to support just through high school. Furthermore, as children spend increasing amounts of time outside the home, the parent is reduced to being a "coordinator without voice or authority...
...year, both sides remained intractable, but pressure mounted to reach an out of court agreement, instead of a protracted court battle that would drain both the Indians' and the whites' resources. Late last June, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis announced the appointment of Albert M. Sacks, dean of the Law School, as a state mediator. Sacks had a preliminary meeting with both sides in July, then left to fulfill another commitment, returning in August to continue the talks...
...assert the authority of the lower house, New York's conservative Democratic Congressman John Murphy, chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, summoned Bunker and Linowitz to a hurriedly convened hearing. His committee, Murphy said, was not about to watch the canal "go down the drain" without some...
Making Do. The stock squeeze is not the only drain on Lance's resources. The genial Georgian, who made $450,000 the year before joining Carter's Administration but now must make do with his $57,500 Government salary (plus at least $150,000 in investment-related income), pays rent of $15,000 a year for a handsome town house in Georgetown. He owns an elegant 40-room mansion in Atlanta, a $100,000 house in Calhoun, Ga., and a vacation home on Georgia's exclusive Sea Island. Nor does Lance stint on entertaining. In June, with...
...Herman, discounts the argument that the experiments were heinous: scientists were teaching the mammals to understand two-word sentences by means of computer beeps, and the dolphins were on the verge of learning three-word sentences. All that research, which cost close to $500,000, is down the drain. Worse, says Herman. Kea and Puka, untrained to feed themselves and unable to communicate with Pacific dolphins, are doubtless dead by now, the victims of starvation, sharks -and mindless good intentions...