Militants driving professionals out of Iraq."Professors have been threatened. Doctors have been killed in their clinics. Killing has become common. Some people believe this is intentional, to try to empty Iraq of its elite." In the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of what some are terming a "brain drain brain drain n. The loss of skilled intellectual and technical labor through the movement of such labor to more favorable geographic, economic, or professional environments. ," Baghdad University's political science assistant dean, Amer Hassan Fayed, lamented la·ment·ed adj. Mourned for: our late lamented president. la·ment  ed·ly adv. that many physicians and academics have already fled to Jordan and elsewhere.
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