The goal is to drain some of the crowds away from Paris's jam-packed department stores Galeries Lafayette and Printemps.

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According to some projections, the Social Security taxes that those two workers and their employers would have to pay to support one retired person could drain away 25% of American payrolls.

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These lymph ducts drain a milky white fluid that contains byproducts of immune activity away from areas of inflammation and infection.

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Even in my own, non-celebrity life, I sometimes feel that making eye contact with a person can give a jolt of energy, or more often, drain some energy away.

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Dr Federle and his colleagues argue that the complex arrangement of pegs and channels around the hexagonal cells has evolved to drain the mucus rapidly away from the toe pads, allowing the tree frog to grip.

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Water held in the reservoir, upstream of the city on the River Laver at Birkby Nab farm, will gradually drain away downstream.

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