Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nervous little bow, and sat down almost unobserved at a Steinway the size of Florida. "Give me the Cleveland every time," a critic murmured contentedly to his companion. "Never a lapse in taste, never a bar without breeding!" Even as he spoke the Cleveland Symphony rumbled like a drain in difficulty and belched forth a stentorian blat of brass. Whereupon the tiny man, exploding chords like cannoncrackers, hurled himself upon the piano, and for the next 72 minutes, while the orchestra bawled like a herd of lovesick hippos, blasted away with a display of percussive pianistics that rattled the hall...
...regret to inform you that there is no Santa Claus." Crowell Collier was folding its two mass-circulation magazines, Collier's and Woman's Home Companion, and dismissing its employees. There was speculation at the time that Crowell Collier would soon follow its magazines down the drain. Instead, says Chairman Raymond C. Hagel, 49, the company has "gone through a whole life cycle in less than a decade." Last week the company announced record profits of $9,292,000 on sales...
...French in 1954. Hanson Baldwin, the majority's own source, argued against a "static enclave" policy in Tuesday's New York Times, and stated that "Viet Cong terrorism and sabotage, even within the enclaves, could continue and United States forces would suffer a small but steady drain of casualties...
Such operations involved casualties, and this is, of course, the main argument against our continued involvement. But to contend shat an enclave policy involving "a small but steady drain of casualties" for a number of years would be "more acceptable to American public opinion than escalation." is to misread American politics. No prolonged war is likely to be popular; but clearly the most difficult situation to sustain would be one in which people were still getting killed after most of the land had been given to the Viet Cong, and eventual defeat was a certainty...
...economist and Brazil's onetime Ambassador to the U.S. Campos is doing more than trying to reform an economy; he is trying to discipline a national mentality. For a starter, he eliminated $200 million a year in government wheat, oil and newsprint import subsidies, thus halting a wasteful drain on Brazil's treasury. He then ended labor's inflation-producing 75%-to-100% wage hikes, slowed down the money presses, and began reforming Brazil's sievelike tax system to plug loopholes and improve collections...