Word: draining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington-seems to function almost in a vacuum when the President is away. Despite the jet planes, private telephone lines and teletype circuits that constantly link the L.B.J. Ranch with the West Wing, Lyndon Johnson's absence from the capital affects the Administration like a power drain. Though his six weeks' stay on the L.B.J. Ranch 1,384 miles away has not been unusually long in comparison with other presidential absences in the past, the sense of disconnection is particularly strong in Johnson's case because he is so conspicuously omnipresent when he does occupy the White...
...countries during 1965 and 1966 to 135% of each company's annual average during 1962-64. Moreover, the Government will count undistributed profits of subsidiaries abroad as foreign investment, thus thwarting companies that have been keeping profits overseas in lieu of borrowing. To restrict another source of dollar drain, the Administration will extend the unpopular 15% interest-equalization tax on foreign borrowing in the U.S. to ten more countries (33 in all), including the oil states of the Middle East. Throwing a bone to the banks, it will allow a 4% increase in overseas loans next year...
Cambridge relies on circuit breakers elsewhere in the grid to protect it from a major power drain. Atkinson explained. "There could be more regulatory devices but they'd have to be planned for the whole system," he added...
According to Swidler, it is still uncertain whether a mechanical failure or a human error started the power drain along the network systems from Maine and Pennsylvania...
...rationale behind the quota is two-pronged; the Administration fears that dropping it would (1) drain the houses of seniors and thus cripple the system, and (2) re-introduce class distinctions into the College by allowing wealthy students to move into local mansions and penthouses...