Word: draining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amenable to surgery and the implantation of certain plastics. Only ten years ago, a child who was born with or soon developed the condition known as hydrocephalus (water on the brain) was doomed to mental retardation or early death. Today, more than 80,000 youngsters have their brain-drain problem solved by an implanted Silastic tube...
...managers are arrogantly suspicious of the new breed of engineers and scientists, and slow to spend money on research. "Of all the countries I know," said Author C. P. Snow, now Parliamentary Secretary of the newly formed Ministry of Technology, "this country respects engineers least." Result: a brain drain that has robbed Britain in recent years of some of its best scientific talent. British managers also tend to look down their noses at the self-made man and the aggressive merchant. "A tremendous amount of work has to be done," in the opinion of Sir George Briggs, deputy chairman...
...London, the Treasury announced that during November reserves dropped another $109.2 million, shrinking Britain's international bank balance to $2,343,600,000, lowest in seven years. There were whispers that even these figures hid the true dimensions of the drain. Last week Britain drew another SI billion in financing, this time from the International Monetary Fund, to pay off short-term loans that had been contracted earlier to support the pound...
...bills sent to Congress since the March revolution, 102 have been approved, covering everything from agrarian reform to low-cost housing credit. Foreign capital is flowing back into Brazil for the first time in three years. And some cherished Brazilian ideas are going down the drain-that uncontrolled inflation is inevitable, that a man should be well paid for a job he does poorly, that corruption is illegal only when discovered...
...radical procedure was necessary; he performed a tracheotomy, making an incision that cut away the wound in the front of the throat. Meanwhile, two doctors infused blood and fluids into the President's right leg and left arm. Dr. Carrico gave him hydrocortisone. Two others inserted chest tubes to drain off blood and air from the chest cavity...