Word: banes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English, French and German, also works with the French Orchestre National and has agreed as well to direct and conduct at Vienna's hallowed State Opera. When he begins his pit stops there in 1982, Maazel will face the unusually intense musical politics that have made Vienna the bane of conductors. So great is the municipal love of music that even the orchestra members, drawn from the Vienna Philharmonic, can be merciless to leaders they do not respect. In this century alone, three illustrious predecessors-Gustav Mahler, Karl Bohm and Herbert von Karajan-all threw down batons and left...
...bane of Tennessee politicians and the butt of barroom jokes. For four years the lowly snail darter, a finger-size species of perch, blocked completion of the $116 million Tellico Dam project on the Little Tennessee River. Because the creature was found only in these waters, it was entitled to protection under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. But it also provided legal leverage for environmentalists who saw the dam as a pork barrel that would deluge 16,000 acres of fertile farm land and wipe out Indian historical sites...
Nixon dropped the subject after ten minutes and never returned to it. In retrospect I believe that we should have taken it more seriously. The bane of our military actions in Viet Nam throughout was their hesitancy and inconclusiveness...
...deputy mayor's job, but his successor in Washington, Robert Garcia, is applauded as a compassionate, hard-working advocate of Puerto Rican concerns. Still, activists like Dora Collazo-Levy, 42, a Democratic Party district leader, complain that political passivity is the Puerto Rican community's principal bane. Says she: "People ask us why they should vote. We give them long-range answers...
Slender and firm at 5 ft. 7 in., she has no worries about bowlegs or "fanny over hang," the bane of many bathing beauties past. In fact, quite another sort of disaster threatens. She does not eat. She cannot sleep. And she loses a crucial 15 Ibs. What to do? More sleep is Charlotte's prescription. But the answer to Christine's problem lies in another notorious nemesis of Miss America girls, her love life. Then she gets a few long and understanding letters from her boyfriend, a second-year man at U.S.C. Medical School whose support...