Word: drain
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...gently encouraged to bathe more, your host tells you that you can’t walk through the bedroom to your sleeping bag because, at long last, her roommate and her roommate’s boyfriend are consummating their relationship. You climb out onto the roof, crawling along a drain pipe until you reach a window that you think is yours. It’s not, but you climb inside and fall asleep anyway. In the morning, you are awakened by Harvard pop sensation Peter Shields, who seems confused that you are in his bathroom...
...insecure now," Gibson says. Robert Walters is placing a large number of executive and management talent into health care and the pharmaceutical industry. "It's getting fantastic people from I.T. and banking - people that [those industries] wouldn't normally be able to employ." But Gibson says the brain drain from old-guard companies may not last. "Media spent so much time beating up on these companies," he says. "They will bounce back...
...these promotions justify the cost? At Denny's, doesn't giving away high-margin breakfast meals drain the bottom line? No, says CEO Marchioli. The additional customers buying juice and coffee with their free breakfasts, plus the repeat business the giveaways generate, cover the cost. "We've already paid for the Super Bowl promotion, and then some," Marchioli said on April 8, the day of the two-for-one offer. "And today is a profit-making exercise. For giving it away, do I make less margin? Yes. But I drive new traffic. And in this economy, particularly for Denny...
...prison work has also been a serious drain on CIA resources. In Thursday's announcement, CIA Director Leon Panetta said that in closing the prisons, the agency would save $4 million per year on contractors. What he didn't mention was that hundreds of CIA staffers were involved in overseeing the prisons. The tail to tooth ratio in the CIA is no different from any other government agency. (Read Wikipedia for Spies: The CIA Discovers...
...paid on Social Security benefits, the system will still manage to provide a slight surplus for federal coffers in fiscal 2009. But from 2010 through 2012, there are small projected deficits, and after heading back into the black from 2013 to 2015, the program will then become a growing drain on federal finances, projects...