Word: drain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision came as no real surprise to those familiar with the Introduction to Business Program for Ph.D. s. It was expensive, and with enrollment down to 29 in the last session--sharply below the needed 50--the drain became prohibitive. While refusing to give exact details about the financial losses, one official said that Harvard was subsidizing the course well beyond the $2500 tuition for each student. In addition, other administrators pointed to the dropping enrollment and voiced qualms over whether students need the program in its current form...
...should continue to sell arms and spare parts to Iran. If we do not, someone else will, probably the U.S.S.R. In addition, the interminable war between Iran and Iraq creates a heavy drain on Iran's economy, which can only hasten the demise of Khomeini's government...
...voice. At the most complex levels, surgeons at Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago can diagnose prenatal hydrocephalus (a brain-damaging excess of cerebrospinal fluid) in a fetus, then introduce a plastic tube into the mother's uterus and into the fetus' head to drain off the surplus fluid inside its brain. Guiding many of these technological innovations is the ubiquitous computer, which can synthesize a mother's voice as easily as it can measure eye movements or count the times that young Gery sucks on his nipple...
...Chaplin offers dozens of examples of this kind of comic grace under self-generated pressure. (He was obliged by his Mutual contract to turn out a film a month, and later, when he was entirely his own boss, it was his money that he could see gurgling down the drain when inspiration failed...
...steel industry has also become weak, inefficient and a drain on the American economy. Steel executives have allowed their mills to become outmoded. Observes Harald Malmgren, a trade consultant in Washington: "When you protect any sector, you are shoring up sick companies and prolonging bad management." The steel industry has not, for the most part, used the breathing space offered by protection to modernize its plants. Instead, National Steel Corp. bought some savings and loan associations, and U.S. Steel borrowed $3 billion to acquire Marathon...