The announcement comes just two years after the city largely abandoned recycling as an economic drain in a time of budget cutbacks.

The big economic drain, they said, has been the sluggish real estate market.

In this manner, she was able to prove her worth to the company without being an economic drain on them.

Illegitimate children could also be a considerable economic drain on their family, while giving little back.

The continuing economic drain caused by the military campaigns in Africa was exacerbated by the first great oil "shock" of 1973.

Supporters say that capitation encourages preventive care, because if a patient becomes sick he will be a greater economic drain on the clinic.

He saw it as an economic drain and realised its damaging effect on Moscow's international relations.

"I do not believe it would cause an economic drain, especially since small business is exempt," she said in explaining her support of the family-leave bill.

At the same time, she provides comfort to western Germans who were suspicious about the economic and social drain of reunification.

The movement into modern globalization was marked with the economic drain of capital into Europe.