Word: drain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Guamanians, it's a typical brain-drain phenomenon--come to the States experience all sorts of new things, and decide to stay in the States. It's still a hard decision...
...past six years. At the same time, East European countries are forced to buy Soviet crude at two times or more the price on world markets. All the while, Soviet leaders have been dragging the rest of the bloc into huge cooperative industrial projects that drain them of the technology and manpower needed for hard-currency exports to the West. The most ambitious joint program, launched by the Soviets in December, aims at pulling the East bloc into the computer age over the next 15 years through 93 research projects in electronics, biotechnology and automation. All these policies, which often...
Twenty-five years ago, morals at Harvard went down the drain: they let Cliffies into Lamont Library...
...industrial might of the West, the oil slide is changing the balance of economic power. The price drop, from a peak of $35 per bbl. in 1981, has greatly reduced the flow of billions upon billions of dollars from consuming countries to the producers. The so-called petrodollar drain of 1979-83 had contributed to the worst global economic slump since the Great Depression. But cheap oil will act as a giant tax cut, or perhaps a lottery jackpot, for the consumers and businesses of such large industrial countries as the U.S., West Germany and Japan. Many economists think that...
...criminal business is that RICO must combat was redramatized last week by the President's Commission on Organized Crime. Wrapping up 2 1/2 years of work, the 18-member commission released a somber report warning that organized criminals have made inroads into virtually every major U.S. industry. They drain the nation's economy through tax evasion and the higher prices caused by their involvement in legitimate business, the commission concluded. The impact could be an extra .3% in consumer prices this year. Altogether, organized crime may take in as much as $106 billion in 1986 and cost a typical American...