But once this scandal broke, all the Republican Party plans seemed to go down the drain.

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This genetic analysis saved millions of gallons of groundwater that otherwise would have had to go down the drain.

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"Young theorists especially would love to see supersymmetry go down the drain, because it means that the real thing is something they could invent - not something that was invented by the older generation, " he said.

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