Word: drain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Apple was able to manage to squeeze so much functionality into such a small package because, if anything, the eMate is a perfect example of addition by subtraction. The eMate is a purely solid computer, with no motors like hard drives or CD-ROMs to drain its power. Instead, data (like that Ec problem set or Core term paper) are stored in non-volatile flash memory that doesn't get erased when the power gets turned...
Fastnet's property suffers from problems including sewage backing up in the drain, rat-infestation in the walls and also contains a structurally unsound fire wall and storage loft, charges the suit. The complaint alleges that repeated requests for Beal, the property managers, to fix the violations and to secure proper permits for the space have gone unanswered...
...BRAIN DRAIN Loss of brain tissue--something that occurs naturally with aging--seems to be greater in older people who have high blood pressure than in those elderly with normal readings...
Ocon said she hopes that his presence on the East coast "doesn't become an emotional drain." However, she said she looks forward to having Maggiore "as a resource" to help care for Bailey...
...those cases come to trial, tobacco-industry lawyers could argue that although it might sound a bit callous to say so out loud, some of the 400,000 or so Americans who die before their time because of smoking would otherwise be a drain on the Medicare and Medicaid and welfare systems for the years they would have lived if smoking hadn't rendered them safely deceased...