Word: drain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dream had not yet come true. Otisca began to feel the constraints of a business that had grown complicated as it sought to serve many masters. Several dozen employees, burgeoning paperwork, outside investors with varying and not always complementary interests, government requirements -- all conspired to drain the fun out of it. More troubling were the shifts in market forces beyond the company's control. By the spring of 1986, world oil prices had dropped below $15 per bbl. The impetus to seek out alternative fuels withered. Florida Power & Light cut a deal with surrounding Southern utilities to buy inexpensive power...
Strike isn't going anywhere, however, unless down the drain is somewhere. He is sick with worry when Rodney, the fluky street lord who is his drug wholesaler, tells him that Darryl, another of his lieutenants, is cheating and must be killed -- "got to be got." Rodney seems to be saying Strike should do the job, and Strike is no shooter. Then Strike hears that Darryl has been shot and that Strike's brother Victor, a straight-arrow who works two jobs and has never had a parking ticket, has confessed. Rocco Klein, a white detective who's more honest...
...result of such attitudes, he argues, women are better off with women doctors. Smith concedes that female physicians can be every bit as domineering and money grubbing as their male colleagues and that medical training may drain sensitivity out of some of them, but "as basic material, they have the best opportunity for empathy. And at the least, they understand the female body better than any man could...
Assuming that Perot can get on the ballots of all 50 states, there is little chance that he could win the election. But George Bush's political advisers fear Perot could drain off enough votes in key states to deny the President a second term. The squirming that his candidacy has touched off among politicians delights Perot, who plans to finance his independent campaign privately and will not accept donations larger than...
Countless examples show that disregarding the natural balance is self-destructive. Deforestation in Southeast Asia has let the rivers wash fertile topsoil down the drain, so to speak, destroying the land and the habitat of the indigenous human population that was supposed to benefit from the cleared space. The same thing is being repeated in the Amazon...