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...time drain, and I wouldn't have todo as much at another university which provided mewith more support," Skocpol says. "Stanford seemsto be taking aggressive steps to improve itspolitical science department...
...brain drain" is certainly a familiar concept to the folks at home. Nebraska has started giving their brightest students generous financial packages (like the ones the top football players get) in an attempt to keep them around for college, increasing the chances they will stay in the state permanently...
...bitter end of this tightfisted semester, the University did pledge to open higher education's largest pocketbook for financial aid--spurred by the threat of an undergraduate brain drain. Then it backed away from that pledge for a summer of calculating how much is just enough...
...Faculty tempted by high-dollar departments elsewhere, no change was apparent and a similar drain may still loom...
...thought himself equal to the task of caring for her as she deteriorated. After he forfeits his well-loved job at the local nuclear power plant in a final act of loyalty to cover a policy mistake, he inventories his suddenly unsatisfactory life and realizes what a drain Billie has become, and vanishes...