Huge numbers of young adults move to London from Britain's other cities and never return home, according to a report revealing the extent to which the capital drains talent from the rest of the country.
Barristers claim that new fixed fees for legal aid, to replace hourly rates, drain talent from the pool of those available to represent defendants, who are often vulnerable people.
It has come to seem, for many people, a sort of laboratory in which a rawer, less-cohesive Britain is emerging; a crowded, hustling place of vaulting earnings for the rich and of widening income disparities, which drains talent and wealth from the rest of the country.Despite these fears, those who cheer as the City falters, will be wrong.
Besides starring on three straight N.A.I.A. championship teams in the late 1950s at what was then Tennessee A&I — and before desegregation drained talent from the smaller or historically black schools — Barnett was a key scorer and strong on-ball defender for four of the five N.B.A. championship series teams he played on.
This has also stymied improvements in the quality of governance, as Cambodia's government ministries fought each other over "turf "in donor funding, drained talent from the government to higher-paying donor projects and encouraged officials' "rent-seeking," or efforts to cash in on their positions.
Successful managers may even decide they have made enough in the bull market, further draining the talent pool.
Dynegy is known as a much more conservative firm than Enron, and analysts renewed their concerns yesterday about the cultural clash draining the talent, and value, from the combined company.
There can be few surer ways to drain scientific talent from a country than to stop that talent telling the world what it has achieved.
The pressure is also on the IndyCar Series, which continues to be drained of talent.
