Word: band-aid
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...former English professor of Eisner's called the CEO to make just that point). The gibe, says a Katzenberg colleague, "was so painful that no money could make him feel better. What Jeffrey always wanted and never got was Michael's appreciation. The check was just a really nice Band-Aid...
Direct service provision such as tutoring prisoners or sheltering battered women is inherently a band-aid solution applied after the cut has already been made. Political involvement, on the other hand, attacks the system with legislation that keeps men out of prisons and women out of shelters to begin with. Is not the potential for change much greater in the political sphere...
MOSCOW: Yevgeny Primakov hadn't done much to get the Russian economy on its feet again, but at least he had stopped the bleeding. So when Boris Yeltsin tore the Band-Aid off Wednesday, the rest of Europe recoiled. The euro dipped to near its all-time low, and indexes in Britain, France and Germany fell on the news that yet another Russian government had left and gone away...
...policy is first to ignore the problem and then to go for band-aid solutions," she said. "Shelters are not a solution. They're just a quick remedy...
Declare your stomachache, and be treated with a band-aid. Show them your gushing wound, and discover a thermometer in your mouth. Your best bet: Stay healthy...