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Right now, the players and owners think we're dying to flush more money down the drain, i.e., their bank accounts. They think we are heart-broken (which we probably are to some extent), that our lives are incomplete without baseball...
Business schools, which closely monitor their graduates and where they find jobs, have been noticing some figures lately that suggest a quiet brain drain is under way. At Stanford, 14% of the class of '94 elected to seek jobs abroad, compared with 6% in 1989. Business schools across the country -- from UCLA to the University of Chicago to Harvard -- report similar numbers. These swelling percentages include foreign nationals returning home. But at New York University's Stern School of Business, the number of American students taking jobs overseas has jumped 20% this year compared with a year...
Business leaders and academics who have been charting this development think not. "It is not a brain drain but an enhancement of the brain power of the U.S.," says William Glavin, a former vice chairman of Xerox and now the president of Babson College in Wellesley, outside Boston. Glavin believes the new expatriates are receiving -- and will return with -- invaluable training they cannot now get at home: "A major problem in corporate America is a lack of global management knowledge. They are not going to learn much from managers in the U.S." William Hasler, dean of the Haas School...
...about one and one-half inches thick, and at most one and one-half feet long, according to Edith Groden, who was in charge of the Grays renovation. In fact, the bar, buried away in a basement drain, had escaped notice since at least 1960 and possibly since...
...only it had been noticed before. That relatively small bar, Groden says, has been responsible for the periodic sewer drain backups Grays has suffered for the past several years. "We would clean out the [debris], but we didn't know what was causing the backups," she says...