But once this scandal broke, all the Republican Party plans seemed to go down the drain.
While the cleaning agent is important, everything else (including flagrance) literally washes down the drain.
Sinks are going down the drain, and steel is now heading in the same direction.
Without sound property rights, the billions of dollars sent to save Africa will be money down the drain.
This genetic analysis saved millions of gallons of groundwater that otherwise would have had to go down the drain.
Thousands of litres of whisky have been flushed down the drain by accident at a bottling plant in Dumbarton.
At 25% of net assets, these write downs reflect a quarter down the drain for every dollar of investor capital.
Recall October 1998 when world markets were collapsing, Russia was going down the drain and Wall Street was in panic.
Given that the government pays an average of 10.4% to borrow, its investment in the banks is money down the drain.
Mishandle them during blending, and the whole enterprise goes down the drain.
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Never put chemicals or oil down the drain -- they will contaminate rivers and then make its toxic way into our oceans.
When supplies run out, campaigns continue to produce paid ads, causing retailers to pour nearly one out of every two ad dollars down the drain.
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The residential real estate sector had been at the epicenter of the financial crisis, taking a particularly hard hit as the global economy went down the drain.
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Otherwise you are flushing time and resources down the drain.
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And this really is 48 million down the drain, because Hayward and Hambrick also showed that CEOs with more favorable press were completely unable to create additional value out of those acquisitions.
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The cooperative and its members know this is a step forward in rebuilding and conserving Rio's environment, but for many, this also means their only source of income has gone down the drain.
"The history of this company is that although they've always had investment successes, any money they've made in anything has been poured down the drain, " says Eugene Fox, a principal at Greenwich, Conn.
"These products are often referred to as upgraded accounts, but if you end up paying for an element you cannot claim on, it is money down the drain, " said Sheila Nicoll, FSA director of policy.
"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.
"I think the Syrian-crisis response is only one example of European Union foreign policy going down the drain, " said Marc Pierini, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former EU ambassador to Syria, Turkey and Libya.
But what really checks all the right boxes for many of the world's ultra-rich is Singapore's obsession with order, predictability and control, all of which give comfort to individuals whose fortunes have recently gone down the drain in many parts of the world.
Irene can serve as our wake-up call, a reminder to look elsewhere for our energy needs: instead of pouring our money down the drain, funding oil despots overseas, our money should stay right here at home, where renewable energies can increasingly serve as an economic multiplier the likes of which Americans have never before experienced.
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When the agents dumped some eight hundred gallons of raw dairy down the kitchen drain, members wept.
But attempts to create treatments that harness immune response have mostly resulted in money sent down the clinical trial drain, as well as dashed hopes for patients and investors alike.
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