Word: draining
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Just about 99.44% of the nation's economists and analysts believe that wages spiraling ahead of productivity will put the U.S. at a serious disadvantage in world trade and will contribute to the gold drain. But A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany is not a man to be intimidated by odds; he vigorously believes that wages should be raised to spur buying power and growth. "Don't let anyone tell you that low wages are the answer to our problem," said he at a union meeting in suburban Miami last week. "On the contrary, ours is a high-wage...
Traffic & Tithes. Though Indian agriculture ministry officials privately call cow worship a serious drain on their country's resources, Hindus in millions still say as they have through the ages: "The cow is our mother." India remains the world's great cow country: its 202 million head of cattle (almost one-fourth of the world's cattle population and double that of the U.S.) compete for food with its 400 million human inhabitants...
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...toward law-breakers. The English have always made great mountaineers, and it is an accepted fact that spiked walls, a gabled skyline and gates that close at twelve will evoke the Edmund Hilary in many a student. On one occasion, quite recently, a New College climber fell from a drain-pipe and hung for some minutes skewered through the thigh before his howls brought rescue. A few days later, this notice appeared on the College bulletin board: "Men are requested to make less noise getting in at night, or else we shall be obliged to strengthen our defences...
...McNamara to produce by month's end a full reappraisal of the U.S. defense setup. Along the way, Kennedy registered a solid boost in G.I. morale by rescinding Dwight Eisenhower's order calling for a cut-down in the number of military dependents abroad to slow the drain on gold...