Word: band-aid
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...There are enough miseries, furies and counterplots to satisfy the most demanding court buffs and gossip freaks, but the book's essential message is a reliable old crowd pleaser: unlimited funds are no guarantor of happiness; if the wound is deep enough, mere money is only a Band-Aid...
...this one has its practical problems--like where the space is going to come from. The most important consideration is that the reserve accomodations be near the River and the Quad so that overflow students can maintain ties with their houses. If so, the plan will be an adequate band-aid on the housing problem...
Responding to fears that the College mightpoint to Briggs as a "band-aid" for the Quadproblems, Jewett said, "New Briggs is a goodstart, but it is clearly not a solution to theproblems here. I don't think that anybody thinksof it as an answer...
...fund is an attempt to put a band-aid on what requires more major surgery. It can produce good things, but it side-steps the investment question the South Africa issue poses to the University," said Damon A. Silvers...
...appropriated $210 million during the past three years to be dispensed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which normally handles crises like the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The money, funneled to local governments and charities such as the United Way and the Salvation Army, is "only a Band-Aid," concedes Mark Talisman, member of the National Board of Emergency Food and Shelter...