Drain
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By characterizing these interactions as pure exploitation, rather than as value-creating opportunities, the Open Veins mentality has been a real
drain
on the possibilities of so many in Latin America and elsewhere.
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If you include all the drain, it takes more than a hundred pints of water to make a pint of beer.
We have allowed despair and pessimism to
drain
us,
drain
our energies, limit our imaginations and dim our vision for a better and brighter future.
Now it does depend on how you measure it, of course, but one estimate has put the
drain
at 250 million dollars per day.
If our institutions are all failing and beyond hope for reform, a natural response is to seek to smash the machine,
drain
the swamp, burn the empire to the ground, on the hope that whatever rises out of the ashes is bound to be better than what we have now.
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