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...shown any sign of freeing the POWs, the Nixon Administration has, in effect, turned its back on American POWs trapped in North Vietnam. Seven years of persistent American involvement have produced the worst of both worlds: as more U.S. pilots become POWs, and the nation's resources drain in the form of "smart" bombs dropping on the North, our chances of retrieving the mounting number of POWs have consistently remained at zero...
...leniently considered this year, permitting most students interested to enroll in Chem 20, the attitude of the teachers is somewhat disheartening. It is known that the need to teach Chem 20 is regarded as a "chore" and probably is resented by those chemistry faculty who see premeds as a drain on their time. This was reflected in what I felt was a harsh tone in the initial class of Chem 20. All of the students failing to meet the prerequisites as stated in the catalogue were called together in a single room, and thereby, rather inappropriately I feel, singled...
...Ross. "Anyone who doesn't respond or is lazy gets sacked." Children go to work at 14, usually as apprentices in a trade. Clunies-Ross said that he did not want the Malay children to have an Australian standard of education because it would lead to a brain drain...
...decade ago, for example, the U.S. had 7,500 general purpose computers and Western Europe had only 1,359, most of them American-made. The score today: the U.S., 54,000; Europe, 32,000, a full third of them made by European firms using their own technology. The "brain drain" appears to have been plugged, and there have even been signs of a reversal. Unemployment among U.S. engineering specialists in the past few years has prompted many to scout for jobs abroad...
...drain on Portugal is enormous. The wars in Africa consume nearly half of the country's budget and require a standing army of 140,000. Portugal's total population is about 7 million. If proportionately sized army were drawn from the United States, it would be like having four million American soldiers in Vietnam...