Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, there was no doubt about the military's rising discontent over Nasser's disastrous adventure in Yemen. Egypt has committed 70,000 troops to the Republican cause at a cost of $500,000 a day, a drain its sick economy can ill afford. Casualties have been high: an estimated 600 Egyptian soldiers were wounded last month. Even more demoralizing are the brutalities of the Saudi-supported Yemeni Royalists, who like to send captured Egyptian soldiers back to their camps with their ears and noses chopped off. For all its sacrifices in Yemen, Egypt still controls less than...
Retaining 83-Brattle as undergraduate housing would ease the immediate housing crisis without causing the financial drain the College fears. If undergraduates were allowed to live in the building on a full room-and-board basis, the gross income to Radcliffe would far exceed the rent the college will collect from other tenants...
Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 sharply criticized Vellucci's proposal. "We would just be pouring good money down the drain after other good money," Crane told the Council. "The emphasis should now be on blocking all Belt routes...
...French government, for it isolated France from its Common Market partners and reneged on a year-old French proposal for a gold-based collective reserve unit, dubbed Cru. Washington felt that De Gaulle's maneuver was dictated by the belief-or even the hope-that the dollar drain caused by the Viet Nam war, now between $400 million and $500 million a year, will make it impossible for the U.S. to stanch its payments deficit this year...
...Sanford is careful to point out that the states should not attempt to drain power from the federal government. The federal system, he says, should reach more people and yet provide room for the states to determine local needs...