Word: band-aid
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YUGOSLAVIA. No real debate here. Both call it a multinational and mainly European responsibility. Both support the Sarajevo airlift, but that is just a Band-Aid. Neither man has offered a plan for bringing the carnage in the splintering republics to an end, or a clear policy on how to manage the dangerous separatist wave sweeping the world. The Clinton camp's critique is mainly hindsight: Bill wouldn't have held on to the sanctity of Yugoslav unity so long, Bill wouldn't have signaled Serbia that the U.S. would not resist its aggression as the Bush Administration did, Bill...
...politically unpopular notion makes sound economic sense. "You have got to limit entitlements if you ever want to get the deficit under control," notes economist Cynthia Latta of the consulting firm DRI/McGraw-Hill. Wharton School finance professor Jeremy Siegel faults Tsongas for not going further. "It's a little Band-Aid," Siegel says of the plan. "We have to reform Social Security radically...
...that's just band-aid economics," said Professor of Economics David S. Landes. "He doesn't have a clue to an economic policy...
...Paglia is determined to hit a few frontiers too. Kafka once said "a book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us." Paglia wants to write that book -- "not the Band-Aid, not the comforter, not the down quilt...
...computer memory, enabling it to identify both its position in space and the object of its interest. A programmer, however, failed to update the information properly, and for weeks Hubble was looking left when it should have been looking right. That too has been fixed with a software Band-Aid...