Word: bane
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Last night's discussion inaugurated the Kennedy School's new Center for Health and Human Resources Policy, which was established this summer. Mary Jo Bane, the center's director and a professor of public policy, said that her priorities will include chronicling the progress of the movement "toward self-help and less toward a system forgiving out checks...
...President, but how do you feel now about Oliver North and John Poindexter and Robert McFarlane, the aides who ran amuck with your policies? "Well," says Reagan, resplendent in the dark brown suit that has been the bane of the gray-pinstripe fraternity for 6 1/2 years, "I heard them out. I can understand why they did what they did and what their motives were, and certainly they weren't bad motives. And I'm just sorry that it turned out that way." There was no hint of bitterness or even anger in his husky voice...
Less frightening than safety concerns but more frustrating are the countless delays, baggage mix-ups and other irritants that have become the bane of U.S. travelers. During the first five months of this year, consumer complaints to the Transportation Department about poor airline service reached 9,812, an 81% increase over the same period last year. The number of flight delays of 15 minutes or more at the 22 busiest U.S. airports, as compiled by the FAA, rose by 13% in the first three months of 1987 compared with the first quarter of last year. Says Nozomu Kaneda, of Kingston...
Government Professor Hugh Heclo yesterday praised Bane as "first rate in the field...
Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 said, at the time of her appointment, that Bane "will strengthen the school's capacity to address issues of domestic policy on management in such areas as human resources, poverty and human services...