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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...
...Bane said she plans to teach two courses in the spring and to continue her research on the effects of welfare. She said one of her courses will concern welfare policy and the other will concern how to best implement such policy...
...Bane's closest colleagues, Associate Professor of Public Policy David T. Ellwood '75 said Bane was a leader in her field...
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...