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State Rep. Thomas Gallagher, a candidate for U.S. Congress, spoke against a "brain drain" caused by diversion of the university's intellecutual resources away from areas like medicine and pure scientific research and into weapons development...
...sources on the presidential commission told TIME that NASA tried to persuade technicians of Rockwell Corp.'s Rocketdyne Division to bypass faulty valves on lines feeding the liquid-oxygen fuel tank. Rocketdyne refused, and NASA learned later that a foul-up was causing the huge external fuel tank to drain rather than fill. "If that orbiter had lifted off with the tank almost empty, it would have imploded, collapsed, and that would have finished the shuttle," said the commission source...
...college yesterday decided to recommend loosening some of the finer points of its new, stricter alcohol policy in response to recent student complaints about "deteriorating" house morale and a drain on house funds...
...This was a great meet for our team because it was an indication of how we stand going into the Princeton meet," Bernal said. "The mental drain of exams is often tough to overcome, but I think this win put us on the right track for the rest of the season...
...economy, however, the current merger frenzy seems to have gone too far. Takeover strategy is taking up vast amounts of management's energy and attention. Instead of running their businesses, some executives are spending their time worrying about financial plays. Says Berkeley's Jones: "As considerable as is the drain of money and other resources into mergers and acquisitions, I regard the drain on management time and talent as perhaps even more important...