Word: bane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lopez Portillo compounded the country's political and economic troubles by encouraging the most deadly bane of Mexico's one-party system: corruption. La mordida (literally, the bite) has always been endemic in Mexican society, but with the huge infusion of oil money, corruption mushroomed. The outgoing President, for example, created 5 million jobs in six years. But at least half of the 2 million new public positions are suspected...
...defense complex is very solicitous of "individual freedoms," no accident that Ronald Reagan, in private an unparalleled chum of every special interest, is in public a protector of the common man against, "pervasive government power." Huntington, discussing political reforms introduced by the progressives, quotes historian Ted Lowi: "The perpetual bane of the reformer's existence is the ease with which the party leaders adapt new structures to the old purposes...
Frequent surveys in the past have measured material gains and quality of life; only two weeks ago, in fact, the latest such British study indicated that fully 96% of Britons can now scrub in either a bathtub or a shower, and 55% have central heating (that supposed bane of British life). But never before have the abstract social and moral values of Europeans been measured as they were by the E.V.S.S.G...
...toll on the nation's airlines and, most visibly, on the patience and stamina of the traveling public. Three major airlines (Delta, TWA and United) reported last week that third-quarter earnings had slumped as a result of the reduced air traffic. Air New England, the boon and bane of that region's travelers, decided to fold its wings at the end of the month after eleven years of operation. The shutdown will mean layoffs for 400 employees. A company announcement partly blamed "the decline in traffic and revenues because of the ongoing PATCO strike." The airline...
...Bane declined to comment on substantive duties, and refused to discuss pertinent issues. She did say, however, that she would work to uphold current state desegregation laws...