Word: drain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...source of energy is becoming not only prohibitively expensive, but its import is a drain on our economy. Why then is there silence about the use of alcohol as fuel for automobiles in place of gasoline? Its effectiveness has been established over the years by its use in racing cars. Studies show that it is at least equal to gasoline in its efficiency, creates less pollution, can be used in existing engines with only minor adjustment, and can be abundantly and cheaply produced...
...hands of big labor and big business, big education, and maybe big religion. If we should ever lose the individual's right to do more for himself or more for his family, I think one of the great character builders of this country will be down the drain. And once that goes down the drain, a lot of the character in our form of government likewise will be under constant jeopardy. We didn't get to be a great country by having the Government do all of that or labor do all of that or industry...
...classic guerrilla fashion, Polisario fighters are mounting up to five raids a week on enemy-held villages to drain the morale of the occupiers. Beckwith accompanied them on one mortaring mission and filed this account of a five-day, 900-mile venture...
Presidential candidates chosen by Mexico's dominant P.R.I. (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) are as certain of election as machine aldermen in Chicago. For that reason, power tends to drain rapidly from their lameduck predecessors as Presidents-elect stake out their policies. Since he was tapped to succeed Luis Echeverria as Mexico's President 14 months ago, José López Portillo has broken with that tradition. Even though he carried out a grueling 40,600-mile campaign from the oilfields and swamps of Tabasco to the high sierra, "Don Pepe" has promised only to govern by the "laws...
Martin said that he "just couldn't let the organization that was doing so much for blacks go down the drain...