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...forefront of particle-physics research. Americans dominated the field from the mid-1940s to the 1970s, but Europe's CERN started stealing much of the glory in the 1980s. Without the SSC, its proponents contend, many of the best American physicists will emigrate to Europe. In fact, the brain drain has already begun: last year, for the first time, the number of American experimenters working at CERN surpassed the total number of scientists from CERN's 14 member countries who had moved to U.S. research centers...
...record badly needs to be set straight about sociology in Britain. British academic life has been assaulted--tenure abolished completely for every new appointment hereafter, to give a single example--over the last decade, and there has been in consequence a steady brain drain...
Following the 1965 Immigration Act, which abolished restrictive quotas based on national origin, Asians migrated to the U.S. in increasing numbers. Many of these newcomers were well-educated professionals attracted to an economy that promised greater opportunity for them and their families. The sons and daughters of this "brain-drain" wave of immigration comprise a large part of today's college-age Asian Americans...
...into a $200 billion market, was paid $550 million in 1987 for his unrivaled expertise. In a perverse version of the trickle-down theory, lower-echelon bankers raked in multimillion-dollar salaries, and new recruits with two years' experience earned six-figure sums. The fantastic payoff created a brain drain as the best and the brightest from top colleges and business schools across the U.S. flocked to Wall Street. In 1986 nearly half the senior class at Yale applied for jobs at First Boston, a leading Wall Street investment banker...
From Pretoria's point of view, the longer talks drag on, the better. De Klerk hopes to win international approval -- and the end of economic sanctions -- by simply opening negotiations with legitimate black leaders. He also hopes that prolonged talks will stall the antiapartheid movement and drain the fervor from its protests...