Word: drains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many believe the place to look for answers is less in the guts of the missiles than in the offices of the companies launching them. A wave of defense-industry mergers has resulted in handoffs of businesses ranging from cruise missiles to space stations. Another problem may be brain drain. As the wizened engineers who first got the country into space have retired--or been downsized--they've often been replaced by younger, lower-cost ones. "Lockheed-Martin has been stitched together like Frankenstein's monster," says John Pike, an analyst at the Federation of American Scientists. "[This...
SWITCH TO A "DIET COLA." More formally, adopt a formula for cost of living allowances that increases pensions less rapidly than the consumer price index rises. Inflation has subsided so drastically as to drain the urgency from this proposal. Also, because of changes in the way it is calculated, the CPI no longer overstates inflation by a bit more than one percentage point, as a government panel of economists thought it did two or three years ago. But some overestimation probably remains, and could cause trouble in the hardly impossible event that price increases speed up once more...
What has become of this movement? We have certainly put more money into the system: Education spending has leapfrogged from $162 billion in 1982 to $300 billion in 1998. Yet despite this talk about "investing more in education," the money has simply gone down the drain. Scores from the National Assessment of Education Progress have remained flat throughout the decade. The Third International Math and Science Study conducted last month reported that American high school seniors placed 19th out of 21 nations in math and 16th out of 21 in science. Our advanced students did even worse, scoring dead last...
...military questions revolve around Milosevic's ability to survive without what NATO is now destroying. The Pentagon's plans to drain Yugoslavia of oil, for example, only make sense if Serbian forces need fuel to prevail and don't have much stockpiled. "We have destroyed all their big reserves and refineries, but they have a whole network of smaller storage reserves," a French official says. "We thought they'd only have petrol for a month, but now it turns out they have a capacity far greater than that." And the pulverizing attacks against Serbia's command-and-control network...
...about time for America to have something to shout about. After the drain of impeachment, Americans are ready for something serene and pristine. The beauty of the grass, the symmetry of the lines, the smell of a well-oiled mitt: these are the things we love about baseball...