Word: band-aid
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Huge wallscapes appeared on Los Angeles and San Francisco buildings last week featuring a bruised and desperate-looking man with a Band-Aid on his nose. Above him was the question WILL YOUR BUSINESS BE TERMINATED? The brazen ads, sponsored by Nevada economic-development officials, seek to lure Golden State companies across the border by stressing California's high workers'-comp and utility costs. And they take aim at the Terminator himself, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...
What is trans-toying? It's an industry term for taking everyday utilitarian objects and turning them into toys. It's turning a shampoo container into a toy by putting a character on top or on a toothbrush. It's turning a Band-Aid into a tattoo, a food into...
...Just redistributing money is something in my mind that is probably a band-aid approach to a national crisis for low-income students,” Donahue said. “What I think would really make sense is to increase the money going to the federal aid programs...
More recently, we saw the mobilization of many student groups to lobby for a Women’s Center. But while we appreciate the good intentions of all who rallied for the new facility, their efforts were misplaced. A Women’s Center is but a band-aid over the ever-present issue of gender inequality. Instead of mobilizing support for a seemingly separate but equal space for women, the groups should have channeled their activism into something more meaningful. Moreover, it’s unfortunate that the band of groups circumvented customary procedures of securing student space?...
Dahroug compared current school funding proposals to “putting a child’s Band-Aid on a flesh wound...