Word: curely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Driskell scored more than twice as many votes as the second-place candidate, the referendum to raise the council's term bill--which outgoing council president Noah Z. Seton '00 had trumpeted as the cure to the council's financial woes--was ultimately rejected by a majority of voters...
...When someone dies of a devastating disease, everybody wants to cure it or prevent it," he said. "But how significant is that as an overall problem in the United States? That's why its important to look at statistics and approach things as rationally...
...kind of cheap inspiration imparted by this excerpt from the weakest section of The Cure at Troy is perfect for earnest and boring lightweights like Doubletake Magazine which takes the same quote as its mantra but one would really expect more substance from Gordimer, whose fiction breathes with implacable moral force...
Both candidates tout campaign finance reform as a political cure-all, the argument being that if we can just take big money and special interests out of the picture, we'll return the government to the people. They say special interests have crippled Congress, rendering it unable to make the improvements the public demands in such areas as health care, education and Social Security. The tack appears to be working as polls show both candidate's popularity on the rise in New Hampshire...
...Senator Christopher Dodd said in a nationally televised 1983 address opposing President Reagan's request for military aid to El Salvador, "We must hear the cry for bread and schools, work and opportunity, that comes from campesinos everywhere in this hemisphere." Well, it turns out that the best cure for the poverty the left so agonized about then is precisely what the left is demonstrating against today--capitalism and trade. In one country alone, China, capitalism and trade have lifted more people out of poverty in a single generation than ever in human history...