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There they multiply rapidly, triggering vomiting and devastating diarrhea that can drain off as much as 25% of the body's fluid in hours, depleting it of essential salts and causing dehydration, kidney failure and circulatory collapse...
...RETIRE AT 41: Or Dropping Out of the Rat Race Without Going Down the Drain...
High interest rates and decreased availability of loan money make it more difficult for would-be investors to buy stock, and tend to drain money out of the stock market into bonds and savings accounts, where interest yields are high. Further, every inflation brings with it the threat of a subsequent recession caused by Government efforts to restrain an inflationary boom-a distressing thought to stock investors...
...hearings might impair future legal proceedings. A concurring opinion came from Massachusetts Judge Paul Reardon, who drafted the A.B.A.'s free press-fair trial guidelines: "The Sixth Amendment, which guarantees the accused the right to a speedy public trial by an impartial jury, is going down the drain in this affair...
Crimson captain for next season, Tony Jenkins, who accompanied Sanders at the press conference, said he was "pleased" with the selection. "I've been around here for a few years, and I've seen the potential for a successful basketball program go down the drain," he said. "I hope Mr. Sanders will be able to change these things around." Sophomore forward Len Adams, who served on the search committee, said that Sanders would be a "definite credit and help" to the Harvard program. "He was a winner in both college and the pros, and he is going to bring that...