Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every such praiseworthy example, there is another where U.S. money seems to be going down the drain. Wrote the Clay committee: "There has been a feeling that we are trying to do too much for too many too soon, that we are overextended in resources and undercompensated in results, and that no end of foreign aid is either in sight or in mind . . . While we are concerned with the total cost of aid, we are concerned even more with whether its volume is justified, and whether we and the countries receiving it are getting our money's worth...
...Wall Street; Europe not only took a fourth of that for itself, but saddled the U.S. with the investment needs of many developing countries that should be partially served by European capital. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Under Secretary Robert Roosa have complained publicly to Europeans about this drain...
Eager to Go. Hailsham has a right to worry about the brain drain. Skilled people anywhere feel the pull of the U.S., but most noticeably in England. Every year 60 science Ph.D.s-about 7% of England's total crop-leave for the U.S. Of ten research students in theoretical physics finishing up doctorates at Cambridge this spring, seven are going to the U.S. Birmingham Chemical Engineer John T. Davies reports that six of his ten researchers left for the U.S. last year. One Glasgow University laboratory team emigrated en masse, and so did five senior aeronautical engineers from Hawker Siddeley...
...Tiger and The Typists, by Murray Schisgal, are both clever two-character one-acters; the first concerns two self-appointed nonconformists who eat their own cliches, the second a pair of drab office workers whose entire lives drain away from 9 to 5. Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson assist the playwright immeasurably...
...been almost too complete. Labyrinth is full of video trickery: there is a gravity-free tea party aboard a rocket, which is halted by the untimely arrival of a meteor; there is an ancient railroad car used as a swimming pool, which, as its water gurgles down a drain to the accompaniment of some electronic movie music, becomes a high-and-dry day coach; and there is a dear old lady who puffs into a cloud of dust as the hero sits down...