Word: drain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drain on the Social Security fund just got a little largertoday when a New Orleans court ruled that a girl who was conceived after her father's death via his stored frozen sperm is entitled to the father's Social Security benefits. The lawyer for the family said the decision, which may be appealed, could mean a $9,000 lump-sum payment and about $700 per month to the girl after that. Judge Elving Torres ruled that despite being born nearly a year after her father died, the girl is clearly her father's child and entitled to all benefits...
...quite fair for the dean to wait until the end of the term to make his decision, when students are immersed in the drain of finals. If the retiring Jewett needed to wait so long to make the decision, it would have been better for him to allow his successor to make the decision in the fall, when there was time for students to voice their opposition...
Such criticism, however, embraces a wholesale separation of the faculties. Allowing the graduate schools to award Ph.D.s would no more undermine interfaculty cooperation than their offering separate degrees does already. To prevent a "brain drain" from FAS into the wealthier graduate schools, an agreement for faculty sharing between schools or even a requirement to teach within the FAS--similar to the faculty's present commitment to undergraduate teaching--would guarantee some measure of equality among Harvard's schools...
...spending money in equal proportions to the ratio of women to men in the student body is the solution. But that system ignores the fact that for most schools this means having at least 5 more women's sports than men's sports in order to "counterbalance" the budgetary drain of men's football. Of course, what that means in the reality of most schools is not that there will be a multitude of women's sports, but rather that there will be a decided lack of men's sports...
...things went from bad to worse. Fluid began accumulating on Elizabeth's brain; doctors had to keep going in with a large needle to relieve the pressure. She grew lethargic, nauseated. The doctors said she would need more surgery to insert shunts that would drain the fluid. With that operation two days away, the parents tried one last hope. What could it hurt...