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Lessons are not the only drain on a musician's wallet. Upkeep of musical instruments, renting recital space in Paine Hall or other areas and travelling expenses are also costly...
...David Lochbaum and Don Prevatte, consultants working at Pennsylvania Power & Light's Susquehanna plant, began to analyze deficiencies in spent-fuel cooling systems. They realized that a problem had been sneaking up on the industry: half a dozen serious accidents at different plants had caused some water to drain from the pools. In the worst of them, at Northeast's Haddam Neck plant in 1984, a seal failure caused 200,000 gal. to drain in just 20 min. from a water channel next to the fuel pool. If the gate between the channel and the pool had been open...
...responsibility of educated Africans is one of the main concerns of her novel, where she discusses the problem of the "brain drain" in many countries like Zimbabwe. The "brain drain" is a crisis which arises whenever African students go abroad to gain knowledge and are supported by their family and neighbors, but do not return to Africa to reinvest their knowledge in their communities...
...narrator of Zenzele, a woman who writes words of wisdom to her daughter, a Harvard student, explains, "[O]ur churches and governments pour money into [these students], who ultimately drain our resources. If our brightest minds go and never return, then it is no wonder that we have no engineers to run our machinery, no doctors to staff our hospitals, no professors to fill our universities, and no teachers to educate the generations to come...
...Hampshire's Sheila Danker (30 points, six rebounds) capitalized on Harvard's sloppy play to score 10 of her 22 second-half points and direct her team on a 10-1 run over the next four minutes before Feaster was able to drain a clutch three-pointer. However, two Danker jumpshots later, the score was tied...