Word: drain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration seeks to cut off an intelligence drain...
...Reagan Administration is belatedly moving to stanch this immense intelligence drain. The President has quietly signed a document known as National Security Decision Directive No. 145. It gives overall responsibility for ensuring the security of communications in the Government and the defense industry to the National Security Agency (NSA), the secrecy-shrouded behemoth whose primary function since its founding in 1952 has been the collection and analysis of other nations' communication traffic. Under Reagan's directive, the NSA will search for ways of protecting the integrity of sensitive telecommunications and federal computer information, which increasingly are two interrelated...
Sales of the lighter amounted to only $42 million last year, or about 2% of Gillette's total revenues of $2.2 billion. The disposal of the line, moreover, will relieve the firm of a drain on earnings...
...thought I was on to something. I described the litter. He said it was the most inconsequential thing he had heard of yet, but he would keep his eyes open. "I'm good at this sort of thing," he said. He had once discovered $4.79 in the drain of his high school swimming pool...
...celestial behavior. Perhaps even more baffling to astronomers, the belt of gas rises up at a right angle to the plane of the Milky Way, an extraordinary position for a magnetic field; normally it should lie in the galactic plane, its lines of force trapped like hair around a drain. Attempting to account for the bizarre properties of the field, some scientists are postulating the existence of a "dynamo" at the center of the galaxy, a source of relentless energy. But investigators cannot ascribe the dynamo to any known generating force, like giant stars or a black hole; those phenomena...