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...waste they generate are but two examples of this program's efforts. Questions still arise, though, about necessary improvements in the "water to waste" cooling systems. These systems use several thousand gallons of clean water each day in the process of cooling and dump the end product down the drain...

Author: By Damon G. Guterman, | Title: How Green Is Harvard? | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Legalize Gambling | 4/6/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENVIRONMENT: Tigers on the Brink | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Track Finds Tough Hurdle at Easterns | 3/8/1994 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Surreal Fight Over Rent Control Will be Settled in a Boston Court | 3/4/1994 | See Source »

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