Word: draining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have spent a great deal of time searching on the floor and taking drain pipes apart looking for wayward contact lenses [Ian. 29], but I think you are mean, mean, mean about us 6,000,000 wearers of contacts. We are not all starey-eyed, status-seeking basketball-player types. Contacts improved my vision (20, 80) to 20 25, and are directly responsible for my qualifying for a driver's license, getting through college and being able to work as a teacher for a living...
...Drain. President Johnson faces the unpleasant task of producing what he calls "strong and specific" actions to deal with the persistent U.S. balance-of-payments deficit, a problem intimately related to gold. The President's advisers are still debating just how "strong" these imminent measures should...
...last year, 75 per cent of them from emerging countries, and that the foreign student population is expected to double in the next decade just when the enrollment of U. S. students is due to reach a new peak, the report points out that foreign students are a heavy drain on U. S. educational facilities...
...more teen-agers into the work force this year. Says the council report: "The great increase in the number of young, inexperienced workers constitutes the most important change in the labor force during this decade." They are also worried about the possibility of a prolonged steel strike, the continuing drain on U.S. gold, and "disturbing" pressures toward inflation. Johnson pledged that "the full resources of this nation" will be used to keep the gold value of the dollar at $35 an ounce, and requested elimination of the statutory requirement that the U.S. maintain a gold reserve equal...
...socialist rulers. They had long feared the worst, and since March 1963 an estimated $1 billion has been smuggled out of the country to safety in Lebanon and Switzerland. With last week's repressive action, the businessmen may soon be in flight after their money, causing a "brain drain" that Syria's ardent but inept socialists can ill afford...