Word: draining
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...anyone who is not anxious nowadays to gain access to advanced technology? Everyone is, including the U.S.--even primarily the U.S. I mean not only the legal purchase of licenses and science-intensive goods or illegal industrial espionage. The U.S. practices its own specific methods as well. The brain drain, for example, and not only from Western Europe but from the developing countries as well. Or take the activities of transnational corporations, which through their subsidiaries are laying their hands on scientific and technological achievements of other countries...
Among the arguments made by advocates of tougher immigration laws is the contention that the extension of public services to illegal aliens is a drain on American taxpayers. They note that some workers without documents manage to receive government welfare and health-care benefits, and many send their children to public schools. The counterargument is that more than 70% of illegal aliens have Social Security as well as federal and state income taxes withheld from their pay by employers who want to maintain the pretense that they are using legal labor. Since these workers often do not file tax returns...
Though nothing new, the brain drain has recently seemed more than ever to be taking from the poor and giving to the rich: whereas 30 years ago most well- qualified newcomers to the U.S. arrived from Europe, now they stream in from the poorer countries of the Third World. "It is indeed paradoxical," says Dr. D.N. Misra, adviser to India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, "that the underdeveloped countries, which have the greatest need for scientists, engineers, managers and other professionals, are in fact losing many of their best-educated young men to the developed countries." Even among...
...newest wave raises many questions: How many immigrants can the country absorb and at what rate? How much unskilled labor does a high-tech society need? Do illegals drain the economy or enrich it? Do newcomers gain their foothold at the expense of the poor and the black? Is it either possible or desirable to assimilate large numbers of immigrants from different races, languages and cultures? Will the advantages of diversity be outweighed by the dangers of separatism and conflict...
...declares Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, they have cut the U.S. technological lead from ten years to as little as three. For the U.S. and its NATO allies, who rely on brains to beat brawn, on "smart weapons" to counter the larger Warsaw Pact forces, the high-tech drain is a factor of consequence in the precarious balance of power...