Word: drain
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Harvard is sometimes portrayed as a parasite to its Boston and Cambridge communities, but a study commissioned by the University and released this weekend discusses how Harvard may not be such a drain on its hosts...
Despite Republican attempts to bolster public support for their tax cut over the August recess, polls continued to show that tax cuts are not a priority for most Americans. The GOP's 10-year, $792 billion tax cut would drain funds away from social programs like education in order to give those in the top tax brackets what the Republicans are calling "tax relief". In fact, the tax cut would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy, not increase median incomes for the shrinking middle class...
Alpert says these visitors are standard American cockroaches. They gain access to dorm rooms, he said, in the summer months when shower pipes are dry and the roach can climb up through the drain...
Alpert says once occupants start taking regular showers, keeping the drain wet, the cockroaches will disappear...
filthy and never take a shower, and the drain dries out and they [the cockroaches] can come...