Officers, who had been investigating reports of drain covers being stolen in the area, stopped the van, being driven by Leith, and found nearly 20 drain covers in the back.

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In a soft-spoken but fiercely candid way, he talks about the city's seemingly insurmountable problems--high crime and unemployment, miserable schools, government cronyism, urban blight, a continuing brain drain, relentless push-back against painful cuts and, above all, the debt, the mountainous debt.

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He had gone missing on Tuesday and was eventually coaxed back out of the drain by the sound of his owner's voice.

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While cost efficiencies do make a lot of sense in the short term, it is important to understand whether all this knowledge drain will prevent the effective bounce back of the organization when the high growth economy returns?

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Relationships with colleagues and giving back to the community are more important to women than salary, according to "The Hidden Brain Drain: Off-Ramps and On-Ramps in Women's Careers, " a study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, which was published in the Harvard Business Review last year.

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He could run a hose down from the house, and, yes, he had put a hot-water line through the basement out to the back, and, in the dead of winter, with his 50 amp heater running and a drain in the middle of the concrete floor, he could wash his MG convertible, dreaming of tomorrow and his escape.

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Dumping them in, she stirs them for a bit, turns the heat down, goes back to the sink to turn off the water, and lets the lettuce sit in the sink to drain.

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