Word: bane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government to gain "practical, first-hand experience," Allison says. The school's faculty have occupied a number of significant posts: Deputy Treasury Secretary Richard Darman is a former faculty member; Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph S. Nye has served as a deputy undersecretary of state; and Mary Jo Bane, professor of political economy, is a top policy executive in New York's Social Services Department...
...Mary Jo Bane, a professor of public policy at the school, who is now a chief policy advisor at the New York State Department of Social Services, said, "Working as a government bureaucrat has made me more humble" on how much government alone can accomplish...
...detectives, who have appeared in 13 novels, are the mainstay of a popularity that has seen more than 1 million copies of Rendell's books printed in English; she has also been translated into 14 other languages. Still, Wexford and Burden are fast becoming the bane of her career. Whenever Rendell makes a public appearance, readers are apt to tell her that they could do with fewer explorations into the midnight of the mind. Says the author: "It is very difficult for the creator of a series character to realize that he is very much more real and important...
...aircraft, a Bell 206 JetRanger helicopter with five aboard and a twin- engine de Havilland Otter carrying 20 others, are owned by two of the 40- odd firms that run aerial tours of the canyon. Sightseeing flights are the bane of local environmentalists, who hate the noise, and air-safety experts, who say that too much traffic crowds the canyon's skies. The National Park Service estimates that more than 50,000 flights are made over the 277-mile- long canyon annually. Last week's accident brings to 57 the number killed in 14 crashes around the canyon over...
...Baby Boomers' great expectations have been diminished by a series of rude social and economic shocks, from the Viet Nam War to double-digit inflation. Although the sheer size of the generation provided a sense of solidarity and power, it ultimately proved to be the Baby Boomers' bane. There were simply too many of them to maintain in the style to which millions became accustomed as affluent children of the '50s and '60s. Egalitarianism might have been the avowed ethic of their youth, but competition was, and still is, the harsh reality. Many bravely refuse to admit...