Word: drain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keene says that his man will struggle in New Hampshire because "Baker can drain votes away from Bush," and adds that Reagan operatives have already suggested a Reagan-Baker debate to isolate Bush. "They'll hear from us if that comes off," Keene warns...
...population is increasing 2% to 3% a year. These people are all going to crowd into the cities, and none of them are going to have jobs. The politicians are going to promise them everything. If you keep your company in Latin America, you will go down the drain." So, when I became chief executive, I took a little cash money and looked at other investments...
...THIS WERE the best of all possible worlds, we would drain the lake now forming behind the dam, and restore to life both the darter, and the beautiful Tennessee Valley now drowning. But this isn't the best of all possible worlds, and within a very few months, the only monuments left to the darter will be a huge expanse of water, and the memory of a government too spineless to save...