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...produce figures. But because they had no way of predicting how many students will actually take advantage of the option, the officers could not provide hard statistics. The financial aid office, which last year doled out $40,000 for study abroad, is not overly concerned about the possible drain on Harvard's resources. The Financial Aid Office now gives money for study abroad according to students' needs, up to but not more than the cost of a year's education at Harvard. Most foreign colleges are far less expensive than Harvard, Martha C. Lyman, director of financial aid, points...
Their deficiencies as overall interpretations did not drain the single-factor theories of the capacity for furnishing specific insights to the prudent scholar...
...plant is unnecessary, uneconomic and, when completed, it will be unsafe. As with nuclear power plants all over the country, the price tag for Seabrook has more than doubled from $973 million to more than $2 billion since its conception. If we continue pouring money down the nuclear drain, we will not have the resources or the will to invest in other energy sources. The final cost of Seabrook alone is more than twice the federal government's total annual investment in solar research and development...
Even for a man of Ludwig's wealth, the Jari project can be a drain. His executives believe that funding for the project is catch as catch can. When Ludwig has surplus funds from his many ventures, he pours them into Jari. When his cash flow is tight-a situation that even a billionaire occasionally encounters-everybody is told to start saving paper clips...
Priscilla Korell, a spokesman for Boston Edison Co., said yesterday the greatest drain on the Boston power lines occurs during the summer...