Word: drains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practical reasons given in the report for maintaining the present ratio were excruciatingly revealing. An increase in total enrollment to 9000 was convincingly dismissed because of the drain it would cause on money and on Cambridge housing space. But the reasons given against equalizing male and female enrollment at 3000 each had no foundation other than male supremacy. The first was based on the idea that only male companionship is important for both women and men. (Remember the construction of dorms at Harvard and Radcliffe.) A decrease in the number of men, the report argued, would mean that the remaining...
...First it was the Gold Rush, then it was the Copper Rush, now it is the Oil Rush. After we drain Alaska of all its natural resources, who are we going to sell...
...Rockingham Park, after a rain, things are different. The Rockingham Park track does not drain rain water very well. After a rain most of the track is a mire of heavy goo, but the rail still has the hard cushion. The answer is that the running surface is sloped a little towards the infield right near the rail. The rain water that falls near the rail drains off quickly...
...expenditures accounted for $113 billion. In terms of production lost because young men went into service or stayed in school to avoid the draft, the civilian economy lost another $82.5 billion, by Eisner's estimate. The human cost of the dead and wounded is incalculable; the economic drain, in terms of demand and production that will never be realized, is calculated by Eisner at $23.1 billion...
...adopt "purchase accounting." The disadvantage of this system is that acquiring companies must often enter part of the cost of acquisition on their books as "goodwill" and write it off over a 40-year period. Because goodwill is not tax deductible, the writeoffs become a direct and sometimes substantial drain on profits...