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...First it was the Gold Rush, then it was the Copper Rush, now it is the Oil Rush. After we drain Alaska of all its natural resources, who are we going to sell...
...Rockingham Park, after a rain, things are different. The Rockingham Park track does not drain rain water very well. After a rain most of the track is a mire of heavy goo, but the rail still has the hard cushion. The answer is that the running surface is sloped a little towards the infield right near the rail. The rain water that falls near the rail drains off quickly...
...Economic Drain. Veterans Administration payments constitute another long-lived but little-noted expense of every war since the Civil War. This year they will add up to about $8.9 billion in disability pensions, education aid and medical care. Since 1965, costs of VA medical care have climbed by $500 million; almost all of the rise is attributable to the Viet Nam War. And forthcoming costs to the nation amount to a large mortgage on the future. Economist James Clayton of the University of Utah estimates that the total cost of pensions for Viet Nam veterans alone will eventually reach...
...expenditures accounted for $113 billion. In terms of production lost because young men went into service or stayed in school to avoid the draft, the civilian economy lost another $82.5 billion, by Eisner's estimate. The human cost of the dead and wounded is incalculable; the economic drain, in terms of demand and production that will never be realized, is calculated by Eisner at $23.1 billion...
...adopt "purchase accounting." The disadvantage of this system is that acquiring companies must often enter part of the cost of acquisition on their books as "goodwill" and write it off over a 40-year period. Because goodwill is not tax deductible, the writeoffs become a direct and sometimes substantial drain on profits...