Word: curely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Modesty is advisable: inflation is in fact the most torturingly complex problem of modern economics. It seems inextricably bound up with growth and high employment; a quick and sure solution might be achieved by inducing another depression-but that would be too severe a cure. Moreover, inflation has become a worldwide plague (TIME cover, April 8). The U.S., even if it can control the economic sickness within its own borders, might be subject to reinfection from abroad...
...crystallized the criticism of Warren's approach to the court's role. Did the court have the right to impose electoral rules on state legislatures? Said Justice John Harlan: "This [majority] view, in a nutshell, is that every major social ill in this country can find its cure in some constitutional 'principle,' and that this court should 'take the lead' in promoting reform when other branches of government fail to act." Yale's Professor Alexander Bickel complained that the court "seems to lack a sense of the limitations of the institution...
...Several rulers," he wrote, "have sought to cure the state and restore it to normal health. They think this decay is the result of incapacity or negligence in their predecessors. They are wrong. These accidents are inherent in empires and cannot be cured...
There is no known cure for Dutch elm disease...
Because of the publicity, ginseng rejuvenating pills have now disappeared from stores in the Bay Area's Chinese communities. If they reappear, prospective consumers should steer clear of them. The ingredients listed on their labels may or may not help cure illness; the unlisted items can kill...