Until the nineteenth century, the Ninth Ward was a swamp, and, even after it became home to a black and immigrant white community, and was drained (in that order), it was periodically devastated by flooding.
Though tracking the movement of wealthy taxpayers from state to state is difficult, experts on public finance and migration say they have yet to document a substantial "rich drain" in states that have raised income taxes in recent years.
There has long been a talent drain in operation that prevents African countries from fielding their strongest teams, with many players of African heritage pledging their allegiance elsewhere.
What is needed is a mental stencil of the kind you find near storm drains in Los Angeles that say: "This Drains to Ocean".
Correction: May 12 , 2003 Monday An article in Circuits on May 1 about the power drain in electronic devices that require direct current referred imprecisely to equipment that converts alternating current.
King said the biggest drain in collegiate sports that had damaged the so-called minor sports was the power and excess of football.
But it is deeply amusing to me to see the fear of a brain drain in a region that has probably drained more brains from the rest of the world than any other place.
The report blames chronic underfunding by the Russian government, an aging scientific workforce, lack of public respect for science, and a devastating brain drain in the early 1990s that saw more than 80,000 researchers leave the country in search of greener pastures, mostly in western Europe.
According to NBC News, the girls planned to execute her in the David's Park public restroom because it had a drain in the floor that would be good for the blood to pour into.
(Some laptops, like Lenovo's ThinkPad series, have a built-in keyboard drain that protects the laptop's internal components while providing a kind of rain gutter so spilled liquids can run out).
