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Head tutors from several concentrations who attended the meeting responded favorably overall, although they said they had some reservations that the site would drain their resources away from teaching and meeting with students...
...remarkable to me," he said. "Taiwan was going down the drain...and he would say, 'What's going on at Harvard? Who's getting appointed? The land acquisition at Allston, what does that mean...
...Bush can blame Alan Greenspan for this one. The trigger was something the Fed head spoke of approvingly in his January testimony before the Senate. It was lost in the fireworks of a rather shockingly hearty endorsement of using tax cuts to drain off unwanted surpluses, but with Greenspan cutting back on his cheerleading and the Democrats feeling their oats, the idea has returned...
...past decade of reform to line their pockets. Graft is universal. Last year an estimated $24.6 billion left Russia, money garnered mostly through bribery, kickbacks and outright theft and sent to private accounts in offshore banks. That's an increase of 30% over 1999, and the total capital drain from Russia over the past decade is more than $250 billion...
...recent years, however, Russia has seen its foreign capital pool drain as wildcatters turned to more welcoming political and economic situations in Asia, Latin America and even other former Soviet republics. Since 1987, oil production in Russia has fallen from 11.8 million bbl. a day to an estimated 6.3 million...