Word: drains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people affected by what they see as discrimination are often the "worst enemy," the source says. Often they are looking for "a nice big piece of the pie for me," and as soon as they are given tenure, "their convictions go down the drain. They begin to say the whole thing has been blown out of proportion." The problem with affirmative action, however, seems to be that people expect it will end discrimination. An affirmative action plan is for the most part a data-keeping requirement that can indicate the existence of discrimination. With this kind of ammunition...
...tailored adventurer with a talent for playing the gigolo, and a lesser flair for dope-running--he caches a large supply of cocaine on the roof of their Baden hotel only to dash up there during a rainstorm in time to find thousands of dollars literally going down the drain. He follows Jackson back to her home near London, where the husband, a pulp-fiction writer, dying to discover whether or not they are having an affair, invites the young man to stay with them indefinitely. In setting up this menage-a-trois, the husband, working on a screenplay about...
Harvard was behind, 12-6, and on its way down the drain, but a great effort by Ed Bordley put the Crimson right back in the thick of the fight...
Other members of the group number one, he says, are going to law or medical school because they ought to go there, but for the rest it is a "brain drain...
...close margin in the second half tended to drain the Classics' characteristic frivolity. Joel Fisher, the team chauffeur ("best driver") explained, "We want to win. It's tough to have fun when you don't play good people. The games we win by 40 points we never enjoy...