Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems a bizarre compromise, especially for schools who so vocally and frequently deny making athletic exceptions. And though it was set up to be a panacea for the league's ills, this regulatory system seems to be fulfilling none of the University's possible goals particularly well...
...that is the best news Barbara Cady could hope for. "I don't expect that this is going to be a panacea and that we'll all live happily ever after on hot-fudge sundaes," she says. "I don't think anyone who is overweight expects that. All we want is some help with a frustrating condition." After years of guilty eating and self-recrimination, it looks as though help for Cady, and for more than 50 million other seriously overweight Americans, may finally...
...does everyone always think education is the panacea for poverty? My husband and I attended private schools and colleges, and we hold master's degrees. We have been employed in our chosen fields since graduation. Come bill time, however, we find ourselves sending partial payments as a stalling tactic. To avoid the high cost of day care-an expense our combined earnings couldn't begin to cover-we work opposite shifts. Our parents have even taken over our car payments. We often marvel at the fact that two well-educated white-collar workers like ourselves are worse off financially than...
...Many of the great problems we face today have their origin in the fact that this global civilization is not more than a thin veneer over the sum total of human awareness," Havel said. "I do not believe in some universal key or panacea...
...lawyers who first negotiated the settlement for the women contend that more than 100 female case officers, now overseas and undercover, have telephoned in their support for the agreement. "This agreement is not a panacea," says Joseph M. Sellers of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. "It will not change overnight what has been decades of entrenched nepotism and connections developed through an old-boy network. But I think it is a very good first step, and it holds real promise to bring that insidious process to an end over time." Unconvinced, the plaintiffs have engaged a new lawyer...