Word: drain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MOST distressing example is the annual flock to law school, which lures some of the country's best young minds and sends them out into one of the economy's least efficient and least productive sectors. President Bok best described the brain drain in his most recent annual report, which noted that law schools "attract an unusually large proportion of the exceptionally gifted. The average college Board scores of the top 2,000 to 3,000 law student easily exceed those of their counterparts entering other graduate schools and occupations, with the possible exception of medicine. The share...
...only conceivable reason that Reagan would want to run again is to prevent the Republicans from going down the drain. But even this argument is beginning to evaporate in the wake of the Democrats' leadership vacuum...
...what ultimately bogs the novel down is its lack of irony. Our perception of Nora's leisurely predicament is caught up in her own hesitancy. The parable does not deliver a satisfying revelation, but it still manages to drain us of sympathy for Nora. How He Saved Her entertains us, but leaves us dissatisfied...
...million third-quarter loss and said that it was pulling out of the home-computer market. The company, which will continue to make and sell its Professional Computer for office use, said it is halting production of its 99/4A home model "in order to limit further financial drain." TI's losses for the first nine months of 1983, which were largely due to poor sales of home computers, totaled $222.9 million...
...September 1982, rumors of First National's shakiness started a yearlong drain on the bank in which customers, including many with large accounts from out of state, withdrew more than half of the bank's $1.4 billion in deposits. First National responded by tightening its loan policy, selling its headquarters for $75 million, and in July hiring a new president, Thomas Wageman, formerly president of Chicago's LaSalle National Bank. Its directors, who include some of Texas' wealthiest oilmen, pledged to pump in some $40 million. But First National had drilled itself too deep a hole...