Word: drains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great fun. Not surprisingly, they kept reporting new traces of the mysterious nymph. Last week Patupis proposed to capitalize on Eucla's newfound notoriety by building a vast tourist complex, complete with gambling casino. After all, he reasoned, "we must not let this worldwide publicity go down the drain...
...educated and the most passionately concerned men of their generation. Most of them are a gain for their homes of exile, particularly Canada, where the majority live, and equally clearly, they are a great loss to the U.S. Why should the country so willingly, even perversely, suffer such a drain on its talent and spirit...
...like Billy Hull, chairman of the Loyalist Association of Workers (L.A.W.). Hull worries that Ulster may be abandoned by "perfidious Albion" and that Protestants may share the fate of those prewar "Czechoslovaks who woke up one morning and found themselves Germans." Says Hull: "If we're sold down the drain, there wouldn't be civil war. There would be armed rebellion against the government of Britain...
...real trouble with welfare as it now operates is that it serves neither taxpayers nor recipients well. The national cost reached $16.3 billion in fiscal 1971; the social costs of the present system are beyond measure. It will take more than eleventh-hour congressional gestures to reduce that drain on the nation's financial and human resources...
...relief (see chart), India is still faced with a financial burden that is expected to reach $830 million by the end of the fiscal year next March. With a 1970 gross national product of only $50 billion and a population of 560 million, India can scarcely afford such a drain on its economy...