Word: drain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost of faculty housing causes a brain drain in California...
Pediatric Surgeon Michael Harrison used a needle to guide a small blue tube, or catheter, into the fetus' bladder to drain urine into the amniotic fluid. Then he withdrew the needle, using a yellow push rod to hold the catheter in place. On the day after the baby, named Michael, was born in May, Harrison removed the catheter and created an opening for urine to drain from the small of his back. Said Harrison: "Michael will probably have to have another operation to reconstruct his urinary tract, but he should live a normal life...
...amendments are designed to reduce illegal conversions, and shift the responsibility for infractions from purchasers to developers. The original law was adopted in 1979 in an attempt to slow the drain on Cambridge's rental housing stock from condo conversions. It requires that a permit be granted by the city before any rental unit is taken off the market...
Finally, the hearing of the elderly often may be adequate for their age, but straining to hear well can drain their energies. Some years ago, Rabbitt did studies for the British Post Office showing that sounds heard through low levels of noise are difficult to recapture. "If you are listening through crackle," he says, "even if you can repeat what is said, you can't remember it as well." By the same token, elderly people with a minor hearing problem may have to concentrate so much to pick up a voice that they forget the contents of the sentence...
...fire has heated underground water, have continued to rise through vents in the surface; heat has continued to build. Tom Coddington found in 1979 that the temperature in the underground gasoline storage tanks at his Amoco station had risen to 172° F. He was forced to drain the tanks to avoid an explosion. A few months later Coddington, who lived with his family in an apartment above the station, was overcome by carbon monoxide and rushed to a nearby hospital. Since then he has moved his family to a trailer set up on the town's ball field...