Word: bandaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FIRST, BANDAID, a group of British pop stars led by Bob Geldof, released "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to feed starving people in Ethiopia. Then the barrage of benefit music began...
...proposed ordinance is only a first step toward turning Councilman Vellucci's epithet into a reality, toward making Cambridge a sanctuary city. Though temporary shelters are a bandaid on the homeless problem, they are necessary. Unfortunately, human concern often turns from a moral imperative regarding the plight of the homeless in someone else's neighborhood, to a personal threat and inconvenience in one's own. It is precisely at this time, when we appreciate the support and security of our own communities, that we can help others to find a place called home...
Vellucci, who also made a $10 personal contribution to the Mondale campaign, added that the other Democratic contenders, as well as Republican leaders, supported only "bandaid" program solutions for the country's ailing economy. "The rest of them offer handouts," he said, "not a real chance to give people a job and a chance to help themselves...