Word: drain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason they don't like the proposal is because it's a regressive tax, that is it hits poor people disproportionately. Certainly instituting gambling in Massachusetts might drain the pockets of the poor at a rapid rate...
...park had an estimated 90 tigers, but Debroy has heard that between 30 and 40 were killed in just four months. "I thought I had done something to restore the tiger," says Debroy, "but now I feel miserable as I watch my life's work go down the drain...
Actually, sophomore Drain Shearer came closest to individual honors for the men in his and Coughlan's best event, the mile (the latter became the first of the over-40 set to break the four-minute mile two weekends ago just after the Hoptagonals), at the IC4A Championships...
Olins said rent control is a waste of public funds. "It's the public sector supplying subsidies, which drain funds from the public budget to people who don't need it," he said...
...watching two years' work go down the drain in about 48 hours, Ira Magaziner, the architect of Bill Clinton's health-care reform plan, had a strangely delighted air at the White House senior staff meeting last Thursday morning. The afternoon before, the Business Roundtable, a group of corporate executives, had supported the alternative plan drafted by Congressman Jim Cooper of Tennessee. In a few hours, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce would use harsher language to reject the Clinton approach. Earlier in the week, Clinton offered to trade away two key elements of Magaziner's design in order...