Word: bane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's most attractive features for many perspective students is its lack of selective social clubs. Although the final clubs are still a bane to the Harvard community, so we can at least take comfort that their members make up only about 5 percent of the student population...
Even if many Republicans are professing that abortion isn't a partisan question, the issue was their bane this fall. Several anti-abortion Republican candidates were caught unawares by the shift in public opinion, and they could only clumsily retract their former positions. Their inconsistency may have cost them the election...
...Smithsonian article touched on a perpetual bane for its students: Harvard loneliness...
...economic bane of the 1970s returned to haunt the late 1980s? For several years, inflation has seemed like a vanquished problem of another era. Price increases during the past half-decade have been remarkably small, never more than 5% annually. Vigilant economists have spotted warning signs from time to time but never any present danger. Now, however, comes fresh evidence that inflation may be making a comeback at a time when it could play havoc with the aging economic expansion and the new Administration. A serious rise in prices would force the Federal Reserve to fight back by pushing interest...
...names of two well respected women academics--Mary Jo Bane and Alice M. Rivlin--also continue to float around the school as top contenders for the post. Some observers say increased pressure on the University to improve its affirmative action record makes the possibility of a woman dean more likely than in the past...