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Though they don't lack for cash to pay bills, the royals continue to dun the nation for upkeep on some of their drawing rooms and castles, not to mention the royal train and yacht. All told, the House of Windsor was a $69 million drain on the British treasury last year. Priced at the equivalent of a major theme park, the Disney-Windsor deal could be worth several billion to the government, which also would get a royalty on the royal revenues. The Windsors would be doing something to earn their keep, besides opening Parliament and holding egg rolls...
...short, we need a setting in which Core learning can be a priority and not just one more hassle. We also need a calendar which does not drain our energy and our potential for performance. Core and calendar issues should be seen as going hand in hand, and should be re-examined to bring the excitement back into liberal arts learning...
...building owners may face a loss in rental fees under the ordinance. Nickinello refused to enumerate how much Ackerly charges in rent, but said the banning of billboards "would be a financial drain on the city of Cambridge...
...Johns Hopkins, and his collaborators, who used the Hubble to spot a superheated disk of gas spinning at a dizzying 1.2 million m.p.h. at the very heart of the galaxy M87, 50 million light-years from Earth. The only reasonable explanation: the gas is funneling, like water down a drain, into the gravitational pit of a black hole as massive as 2 million suns...
...waste of everyone else's time. If I know the shuttle won't come, at least I can make alternate plans. But if I wait ten minutes after the shuttle is supposed to come and then walk home, that's nearly a half hour of my time down the drain. Similarly, I could call the revamped SafetyWalk, but after waiting for an absentee shuttle. I just don't have time to wait anymore--and I shouldn't have...