Word: band-aid
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...pretty badly. And then he pulled out a knife and he said, "Fuck this! I'm going inside to get my gun." That was when I soiled myself and I got my friends and ran home. My dad caught me in the sink trying to put a Band-Aid on my arm. And he said, "Son, are you all right?" and I said, "Yea, I just had a bloody nose and a bad dream," except I had urine on my pants and blood coming down my arm. I'm really not that much of a criminal though...
These tragedies and the Band-Aid reparations have struck another blow against a sport that has been fighting for its life. In recent years, the number of schools that carry wrestling as a varsity sport has been steadily declining, and the deaths of the three young men cannot have helped its case...
Patricia A. Casola, chair of the Fresh Pond Tenants Association, said that the current one-year housing voucher system in Massachusetts--which allows tenants evicted under rent control to stay in government subsidized housing--a "temporary band-aid on a problem that requires surgery...
Harvard should help us overcome our difficulties, not cause them. University support networks are necessary, but should not serve as a band-aid for underlying institutional imperfections. We must care what all members of the community experience and believe, listening to their ideas and humbly and unselfishly implementing appropriate solutions to address any problems...
Plenty of domestic opposition remains, however. Despite the President's self-congratulatory language, most environmentalists didn't think the proposal was especially meaningful or far-reaching. "A Band-Aid on a problem that requires a tourniquet," Robert Musil, executive director of the Physicians for Social Responsibility, called it. And many conservative politicians and business leaders ridiculed Clinton's claims that his plan will cause no harm to the economy. It will, insists Republican Representative Bill Paxon of New York, "wind up costing the taxpayers billions of dollars and millions of jobs...