Word: cure
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When Ingvar Carlsson, Sweden's Social Democratic Prime Minister, entered the chambers of parliament last week, he was convinced that he brought with him the cure to the country's economic woes, which are many. Banks had been closed for almost three weeks in a bitter strike and lockout; wages have risen 28% since 1986; and inflation gallops ahead at an estimated 9%. Carlsson's plan was painful: a two-year freeze on rents, wages and prices and arbitration to prevent strikes. After several hours of heated debate, the five opposition parties united to defeat Carlsson's bill. The final...
About the only thing crack addicts seem to fear is the severe depression that follows a cocaine-induced high. After repeated use of the drug, the usual cure -- more crack -- stops working. Now, drug experts warn, an increasing number of cocaine abusers are using heroin to ease the horror of the postcrack...
...Were you encouraged by the report from Johns Hopkins that bone-marrow transplants might provide a cure...
...federal government is totally constipated, [and] does little more than increase the debt and invade foreign countries. And you know how to cure constipation," quipped the Southern politician...
...never danced. She said she liked "progressive music" which she defined for me as The Cure, The Smiths...maybe Blondie. She knew of Big Audio Dynamite, but hadn't known they recently put out an album called Megatop Phoenix...