Word: draining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brezhnev explained to a party meeting in Moscow last week, the Soviet Union will spend roughly $45 billion during the next five years to 1) mechanize the farms, 2) increase chemical-fertilizer output, 3) irrigate 6,500,000 acres of arid soil, and 4) rehabilitate and drain an estimated 11 million acres of potentially tillable land. Unlike Khrushchev, who concentrated on opening up Asian virgin lands, Brezhnev and Kosygin plan to put the main emphasis on improving already cultivated areas west of the Urals. Brezhnev also put his prestige behind the most unusual departure in Soviet agriculture since the 1930s...
...some pressure off the dollar are dead-which suits De Gaulle just fine. Worst of all, if the U.S. encounters an economic dip next year, the Government money managers may be unable to fight it by lowering taxes or loosening credit-because such measures would only deepen the dollar drain...
...like the other ten, white-run, banks in Harlem, is one more part of the power structure, one more reason why Harlem is an economic colony of New York city. They feel that Negro bankers who live outside Harlem--as do almost all of Freedom National's employees--can drain money out Harlem just as effectively as the white businessmen who own almost of Harlem's stores. Black bankers not help Harlemites, they maintain, they help themselves...
...Hospital, on the other hand, Dr. Augusto Sarmiento has used the technique on more than 50 such patients aged 60 and over. Only three patients have needed a second (higher) amputation because of infection or poor circulation. Unlike some other surgeons, Dr. Sarmiento does not believe in leaving a drain tube in the wound, or in putting any padding between the stump and the socket. He wants the snuggest possible...
...Brighton, he found himself scrapping for perks with a pack of young snobs in full cry. He hated it, but in self-defense he repressed his homesickness and began to play the devil with his wit. At Oxford, where wit and atheism made him fashionable, he drank like a drain, hobbed with the nobs, japed and scraped his way through 2½ years of invaluable idleness. He wrote little but he peered at the peerage, at the descendants of the knights and ladies on his nursery walls, with the cold clear eye of a disappointed romantic...