Ending this heavy drain on government treasuries requires privatization, virtually everyone agrees.

His tractor beam is a heavy drain on his small ship.

Twenty-five minutes of a most continuous operation was a heavy drain on the battery.

However, cloaking devices are a heavy drain on a warbird's resources, so we can make them pay a high price for this pursuit.

"The tube room reached absolute zero some time ago,'* he said, "and there's no heavy drain to that position.

The heaviest drain on budgets has been in the overtime and outside contracting accounts, officials reported.

Still, the problem has become a heavy drain for banks, particularly those in the Northeast.

It was hung on the wall in addition to being supported by the heavy drain.

The costs of unemployment are a heavy drain on national economies.

The project was a heavy drain on Lim's finances.