Word: drains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ghost Towns. Partly because of the drain on its resources, partly because of its outmoded economy, Portugal falls further and further behind the rest of Europe. Drawn by higher wages in France and West Germany, 1,600,000 Portuguese workers now live outside their own country, sending their wages home. Since 1960, the population (8,161,000) of the country has actually shown a small decline, and the northern provinces sometimes look as if they had been visited by a plague. Once lively villages are now ghost towns, while others are inhabited only by the old and the young. Recent...
...fiscal year ended July 3 1, sales of Genesco's various divisions (Bonwit Teller, I. Miller, Flagg Bros. Shoes) reached a record $1.4 billion, but the company lost $53 million. To stop the drain, Franklin has decided to close 100 women's shoe stores, to sell an Italian men's clothing firm, and is even unloading the 347-unit S.H. Kress variety store chain. He has already shut down three textile plants in Tennessee and North Carolina. Together, these operations accounted for $18 million of the fiscal-1973 red ink. From now on, says Frank the Knife...
...that this wicked electronic monster entices me from. Somehow, reading about the lineage system of the User tribesmen isn't quite as thrilling as the orgasmic excitement of getting a really good flip that sends the ball into seeming oblivion. The satisfaction of saving the ball from the "kamakazi drain" by giving just the right body English is far greater than finally figuring out Taylor's theorem...
...female owner of a drygoods store paints a bleak picture for Lubec. "I think this town is going right down the drain," she says. "Who wants to live here and starve to death? What is there here for young people? Nothing...
...loss of brains to the West. Between 1949, when the G.D.R. was created out of the Soviet zone of occupation, and 1961, when the hated Wall was erected, approximately 2,700,000 East Germans fled to the West, most of them young, talented and educated. Partly because of that drain, East Germany is still plagued by a shortage of labor. Some 35% of the work force is pension age; of the country's women between 16 and 60, 84% work outside the home-one of the highest percentages of any country in the world. Perhaps not coincidentally, the population...