Word: banes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rerun season, a bane to the regular viewer but a boon to the occasional one, is in full flower on the networks. Most of the weekly series now contract for only 26 new episodes a year, which leaves the other six months to be filled with repeats of segments shown earlier in the season or from years past. It's a happy time for those who love The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and baseball with equal fervor, less so for those who suspect that the episode they missed last fall wasn't worth watching in the first place...
...discussion period that followed, Harris talked about his experiences in Democratic campaigns of the last ten years. He said that the bane of a pollster's existence is that "people have learned the right answers, and what they are willing to do, or how they intend to vote...
This lack of male vanity is the bane of the $5 billion-a-year shoe industry, and a chief reason that its sales have lagged behind the nation's economic growth. To remedy the situation, America's more than 1,000 shoe manufacturers are rapidly changing shapes, styles, selling strategies and even materials. Last week, at the National Shoe Fair in Manhattan, they showed off 300,000 kinds of footwear designed to give a lift to their old and slow business...
...university course," and proceed to three year's study for the degree only after passing a public examination. B.A. candidates take a total of twelve such public examinations in four years. Because they are all-important and because they are rigidly administered by external committees, these exams are the bane of the Indian student's life...
Brief, high-power pulses of electrical energy throbbing through intricate circuitry are the heartbeats of modern radar. But they are the bane of many an electronics engineer. Sometimes the high-frequency currents that are crammed into a pulse swirl through a simple resistance as if it were also a small coil (inductance); sometimes the pulses treat the resistance as if it were a capacitor. Either way, coil or capacitor, those unwanted effects introduce annoying problems...