Word: banes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class conflict: "The workingman perennially has been the bane of the intellectuals since he seeks meat on the table before he will sacrifice himself for some vague Utopia...
...zone defense is the bane of pro-football quarterbacks, since it is designed to take away the offense's most potent weapon, the bomb. Basically the zone calls for the seven behind-the-line defenders-three linebackers, two cornerbacks and two safeties in the normal pro lineup-to cover designated areas rather than specific receivers on a pass pattern. (If they do cover individual receivers, they are playing a man-to-man defense.) The defenders in a zone are charged with the responsibility of protecting their areas until the ball is thrown; then they converge on the receiver. Thus...
Lonesome George McGovern may have his political problems, but money, the traditional bane of most presidential aspirants, is apparently not one of them. His campaign, which staffers boast is the "best financed" of any Democratic contender, is running $200,000 in the black, and should become $300,000 blacker by the end of the year. The reason: a variety of fund-raising gimmicks. McGovern has used direct-mail solicitations overseen by Morris Dees (a Montgomery-based wizard who made his millions in the mail-order business). There have been conventional fund-raising luncheons like one in New York City last...
Airport officials are also seeking to alleviate another bane of the jet traveler, the vast distances between outlying parking lots and terminal buildings. To link a new and distant parking area to its sprawling terminal, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport may install moving sidewalks. One Dallas parking lot is already connected to the terminal by Braniff's "Fastpark Jetrail," a passenger-carrying monorail. Los Angeles is planning an air-cushion vehicle route that by 1973 will link L.A. International Airport and a huge parking space 16 miles away, at the juncture of the San Diego...
...headache; by scattering ground light in all directions, tiny smog particles can greatly increase the glare over an observatory. Not only the amount, but also the character of the light can affect a telescope's usefulness. Increasingly, mercury-vapor street lamps are the astronomer's special bane. They happen to be a powerful source of ultraviolet radiation, which is in the part of the light spectrum that gives astronomers important clues to the nature of certain stars and galaxies. And if a city's street lamps and billboards give off light characteristic of a star, explains Astronomer...