Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blue Cross coverage for all students has often been suggested as a solution for the insurance problem. But the ordinary Blue Cross program is far from a panacea for the ills afflicting the medical set-up. While Blue Cross would give a more complete coverage than the present University fee, it pays only $12 a day for hospitalization costs. Yet ward costs in any of the local hospitals run to at least $17 a day, a gap that many students would be hard-pressed to fill from their own pockets. In this respect, the current University fee is actually more...
...illiteracy are not inevitable-is spreading like fiery crosses among folk who for centuries have remained apathetic to advance. Having emancipated themselves from colonialism, millions of human beings are consumed by an aching need to pull themselves up from economic servitude. They look to "industrialization" as a magic panacea...
...debate centering on whether revision was a "Pandora's box or panacea," Norman Cousins, president of the United World Federalists and editor of Saturday Review, clashed with Gross, by urging a change...
...members of the Council of Profit Sharing Industries got an answer that shocked them from Joel Goldblatt, president of Chicago's Goldblatt Bros, department store. Goldblatt, whose company has kicked in more than $3,000,000 in profit-sharing since 1942, made clear that sharing profits is no panacea. Said he: "Ideally, profit-sharing should give employees the sense that they are the ones responsible for the success or failure of any business. But in a large company with many diversified jobs, they are too far away from the end results of their work ... As an incentive builder, profit...
...they are still inadequate to the times and to the nation's needs, and growing more so every year. Last week, in recognition of that fact, Dwight Eisenhower proposed a bold program of road building and improvement, including, for the first time in Federal planning, a national panacea for the parking problem. Estimated cost: $50 billion over the next ten years...