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Brennan said he has had to deal with everything from water flooding out of his bathroom drain to random power outages to missing toilet seats...
...There was an old drain where food has been collecting long enough to cause fruit flies to breed,” Alpert said...
...here or Tragedy Andie in Harrison's Flowers, MacDowell always rewards watching. Her long, lovely face is both active and pensive; it often seems torn between remembered joy and anticipated anguish. She also has the gift of cuing a change in a film's mood by letting the blood drain from her face...
...gasoline. This tax is an unfair transfer of wealth from poor smokers to more affluent non-smokers. If prices rise by $2 per pack, a two-pack-a-day smoker will be hit with $1,460 in added expense each year. That’s a huge financial drain on a low-income consumer who cannot kick the habit...
...always seem to be suffering a personal energy crisis. I can drain my mobile-phone battery dry in a day, my PDA craves a charge after 48 hours and my notebook computer beeps plaintively during the shortest airplane flight. The situation isn't getting better. Portable devices continue to sprout power-hungry features such as color screens and wireless communications capabilities. Yet the humble, overtaxed battery?without which no device would be portable?is evolving too slowly to keep...