Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once in office, Palme hopes to apply his party's free-spending credo as a panacea for Sweden's sluggish economy. He promised to cancel planned cuts in sick pay and to increase funding for child-care centers. Unemployment compensation and pensions will be raised to keep up with inflation. In addition, Palme has proposed a mammoth $320 million government investment scheme to build new roads, bridges and housing projects that he believes will generate up to 40,000 new jobs. To finance the programs, the Social Democrats want to hike the country's 21.5% sales...
...year-olds back for tune-up math work. The dismaying caliber of the nation's pre-freshmen has spawned two curriculum reform proposals that promise a return to the days when high school grads could be counted on to do simple arithmetic and read had signs. But one panacea suffers from dreamy idealism, and the other will work only if America can somehow shake free from the tyrant of its college admissions process...
Cyclosporine is not a panacea for transplant problems. It is expensive to make and produces some ominous side effects: it is toxic to the kidneys, and there is some evidence that it is associated with lymphatic tumors. But both conditions appear to be linked to higher dosages. Sandoz is submitting cyclosporine to the Food and Drug Administration for approval this fall...
...reminded that Don Regan that very morning had promised to intervene in disorderly exchange markets. "Didn't you notice that?" asked Reagan. No, he hadn't, the Chancellor admitted. Anyway, Reagan went on to argue, even if U.S. interest rates came down, it would be "no panacea" for the world economy. As for the Fed, "we cannot order them not to publish the money-supply figures. They're an independent body, but we'll relay the message." The President finished up with a little homily about "no quick fixes" for the world's economic problems...
...government. Instead, at only serves to increase the tension. In an area as traumatized as El Salvador, it's hard to see how the injection of military aid will do the cause of peace any good. Even the left, which would have proven an improvement but not a panacea for the troubled nation, probably would not have deserved such military support...