Word: cures
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...Married couples at all middle-income levels who are caring for children and aging parents. They want a President who solves problems and offers a cure for their "prosperity angst." When they aren't worrying about bad things happening in their children's schools, they're fretting about their parents' health-care costs. They like Bush's education record as well as his plan to use vouchers to rescue children from failing schools, and his "prosperity with a purpose" pitch has been hitting home with them too. But when he got lost in the thickets of tax-cut policy, they...
...founding of the MWRA was in part an attempt to avoid the quick fix that had characterized Boston's cleanup efforts up to that point and permanently cure the harbor's sewage problems...
However, the deal should not be seen as a cure-all. It covers only television and radio advertising expenditures, not other campaign expenses such as get-out-the-vote efforts. Although the latter may seem a nobler cause, the need to solicit funds would be no less corrupting. The enforcement provisions are incomplete: Once one campaign violates the deal, the other would be allowed to respond "proportionately," a phrase that seems likely to send the campaigns careening into a spiral of escalating counter-spending and accusations...
...stripped of her gold medal in the all-around competition because, it seems, her team physician had prescribed a cold remedy containing the stimulant pseudoephedrine. Was it fair to take the medal away when her intent seemed innocent? But what of the doctor? Was he trying to cure Andreea's sniffles, or to jazz up her performance...
...health care system are not beyond correction. The upcoming presidential election offers Americans a rare chance to reflect and compare plans of action. Both major presidential candidates, Vice President Al Gore '69 and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, with the help of their spin doctors, claim to offer cure-alls for the gamut of our health care woes. But it is up to voters to judge whether these proposals might succeed as long-term treatments to the system's ills...