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...program back together. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird warned that the moment could not be worse for closing off the aid pipeline. From Bangkok, traveling Treasury Secretary John Connally chimed in. If aid is ended, he said, "all that we have done since World War II would go down the drain...
History's greatest brain drain occurred during the 1930s, when thousands of intellectuals fled Nazi Germany and took refuge in other countries. What Germany lost and other nations gained was re-emphasized last week when the latest Nobel prizes in science went to two refugees from Hitler: Dennis Gabor, who won the 1971 prize in physics for his invention of holography, and Gerhard Herzberg, who earned the laurels in chemistry for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy...
...slow the drain on its own gold store, the U.S. has for years pressed, argued and cajoled foreign nations into holding substantial sums of dollars in their reserve assets-the mixture of gold, foreign exchange and other credits governments use to finance international trade and investment. If the dollar is devalued, those countries that went along with the U.S. request would lose part of the value of their reserves-and thus some of their purchasing power in world markets...
...want to escape. Older cats have found a way to escape confronting these realities, and by the mere fact that you grow up on the playground with them, you begin to do the things they do even though you're not their age. Like you begin to drain their wine bottles, you know, you begin to take the pills, and smoke the grass because this affords you an opportunity to get away...
...distinctive taste. Says Fred H. Jones, executive director of the American Bottled Water Association: "We're concerned that some small bottler may bottle up some impure water and get some people sick." Many bottlers fear that a single severe scare story could send the entire industry down the drain...