Word: drain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems to me that at least four or five big trays of food are left over each night in one dining hall. It's thrown right down the drain. It's ridiculous," he said, adding that starting this Friday, he and several friends will pick up food from the dining halls two or three times a week and take it to a Cambridge homeless shelter...
...HIRE SOME OF THOSE M.B.A.S TO GO MAKE SOAP IN CINCINNATI. The crash should help U.S. industrial companies by slowing the investment-banking brain drain, in which so many of the most talented business school graduates were going to Wall Street. Recruiters for companies ranging from General Motors to IBM find that 1988 grads are showing a renewed interest in running factories rather than financings...
...Soviet agenda. But mindful of the disruption that such reform has caused not only in China but also in parts of Eastern Europe, he has done virtually nothing to cut back on state subsidies for everything from bread to meat and butter, which keep prices low but drain off billions of rubles annually. So far the leadership has not presented any plan for price reform, but the issue has triggered public debate. Says a parliamentary deputy: "Prices are not so much an economic category as political...
...replicating mechanism, sending an identical copy of the original program to every name on their personal electronic mailing lists. In a matter of days, clones of the tiny program had multiplied in such profusion that they clogged the 350,000-terminal network like so many hairs in a bathtub drain...
Despite Drexel's combative public posture, the company is probably wrestling with a difficult decision: whether to endure a trial or try to negotiate a settlement. Drawn-out civil and criminal trials would be a drain on Drexel's resources and customer goodwill. Moreover, Drexel may have more court battles to fight against its aggrieved clients and the investing public. Late last week a lawyer in Philadelphia filed the first suit on behalf of stockholders in the companies listed in the Government's case. As Drexel's legal troubles proliferate, they are already transforming the firm from an aggressor feared...