Word: drain
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...sentiment among Quebec's 4.6 million voters, some 80% of whom speak French. Over the past decade, laws requiring special treatment for the French-speaking majority have caused more than 100,000 English speakers, many of them leaders in finance and business, to leave the province. The subsequent economic drain has worsened unemployment, now nearly 12%. At the same time, many French speakers feel confident that their language and culture are now adequately protected. The result: few wish to risk any longer the economic costs of separatist politics...
...does not go unread. "The Death of Artemio Cruz" and "Where the Air is Clear" were both considered extremely difficult and complicated when they first appeared. Fuentes tells of one critic who suggested that "The Death of Artemio Cruz" served no better purpose than to be flushed down the drain. "Today," Fuentes says, "these novels are read by 15 year-olds in Mexico. That is in great measure the destiny of literature, it ends up being accepted...
...means a certainty. Critics are worried that its cost will drain money from other worthwhile projects, and growing concern about the federal deficit could, at best, delay congressional approval. But many scientists are convinced that the big collider will eventually be built. Says James Cronin, a physicist at the University of Chicago: "If we're serious about finding out about nature, we have...
...NOTEBOOK: The Harvard JV team beat Brown, 1-0, on Julie Cohen's first-half goal...In the varsity game, two balls flew through the protective nets that surround the rooftop and into the parking lot five stories below...In the JV game, a ball slid into a drain pipe and also wound up in the parking lot...Midfielder Sharon Kosakowski played in both games...Harvard is 1-0-2 in games that have gone into double overtime and 1-1-1 on artificial turf......Harvard's final two games are on the road...
Divestment, you see, "would render meaningless the gains [non-whites] have already made." Imagine all the progess in South Africa, after a decade of intense sacrifice and struggle in the corporate board room, down the drain...