Word: cure
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Chomsky said the current struggle to cure the "Vietnam Syndrome"--cynicism that developed toward the American government in the early 1970s and exists to this day--is an effort by the government to reindoctrinate faith in democracy...
...John Glenn announced that this time around in the U.S. Senate would be his last. Speaking at a college chapel in the town where he grew up, Glenn told a small crowd of supporters and students that his desire for public service remained strong. But "there is still no cure for the common birthday." Glenn said, smiling. "Although my health remains excellent . . . another term in the Senate would take me at the end of that term to the age of 83." It was a typically modest exit for a man elected in 1972 as the symbol of a glorious time...
Searching for A Cure...
Every problem movie is really a solution movie; it must offer a cure at the end of the agony; parents may surrender to copelessness but never to hopelessness. So Lori hears of the Ketogenic Diet, a regimen that has quelled seizures in perhaps a third of the epileptic children who've tried it. Among the controversial diet's true believers are the film's director, Jim Abrahams (of the team that created the Airplane! and Naked Gun farces), and his son Charlie, 4, whose seizures ceased after he went on the diet and who plays a cameo role here...
...more than just a kiss. With the help of this battery-operated gadget, a smooch can be shock therapy too. Connect one set of wires to your stereo, hold one handle each, turn the knobs, kiss and whammo! You complete the circuit, and the electricity really flows. It could cure you of kissing forever...