Word: bane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...represents the culmination of diligent study within a field. For those who choose to take on the challenge, the thesis can represent an exploration of personal interests, as well as a taste of higher education and professional avenues. Many disgruntled and jaded senior concentrators view the thesis as the bane of their social existence, not to mention an unpalatable chore, as they realize that toiletry practices of Minorcan societies no longer tweak their interest. Over the past few years, seniors have covered the typical range of topics, including the socioeconomic histories of every imaginable country, province, and anthill. Then there...
Meanwhile, index funds--the bane of active managers--continue to dazzle. Their weak spot was supposed to be a down market. But when the market tumbled in August, the index funds held up better than most. Which tells you that if you can hitch your wagon to a star, big-bet funds are worth it. Failing that, though, better just to stick your money in an index fund and let it ride...
...people have to start in the early fall orJanuary because it has become too competitive,"says Connie Clifford, recruiting coordinator atthe consulting firm Bane and Co. She adds thatincreasing numbers of first-years and sophomoressubmit their resumes for the even more intensesummer internship recruiting, which is limited tocollege juniors...
Close, when a student at Yale, was enraptured by the work of the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning: he loved his color and luscious paint surface, while realizing that they couldn't possibly be imitated. Imitating de Kooning was the bane of student existence: no originality could come of it. But Close, in his ruminative way, hankered after the paradise of the senses that de Kooning's touch represented, and it surfaces in the work that he had begun to do just before his paralysis in 1989 and was able to develop after his partial recovery. The dots and pixels...
...Core: Bane or Blessing...