Word: panacea
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Boston may have a deplorably bad theater scene, but Fenway Park is a nice panacea. Growing up a baseball fan in Seattle is tough. One has to resort to fantasies of blowing up the Kingdome and building a real ballpark to survive. And even though I don't have the connections to see the Celtics play in the Garden, it's nice to know they're nearby...
...Freak," released in 1978, encompasses everything that the disco connoisseur desires in a song. Right after a groovin' scream in the intro, the base settles into a panacea of flashing lights and disco balls. Even the squarest lounge lizard can't help but do the freak...
...strictly limited and still not completely understood. Preliminary studies suggest that when taken in conjunction with a moderate diet, it can reduce fat uptake in seriously overweight patients up to 270 calories a day -- the equivalent of about one scoop of Haagen-Dazs. The drug is not a panacea. Nor is it anything anybody should consider swallowing just to look better in a bikini...
...control is not the panacea its advocates claim it to be. The Justice Department has found that 93 percent of gun-using criminals already obtain their guns through illegal means. Also, waiting periods have proven ineffective at stemming crime. From 1952 to 1974, California had a lower murder rate than the rest of the country. A 15-day waiting period on handgun purchases was enacted in 1975, and from 1975 to 1990, California had a higher murder rate than the rest of the country. Meanwhile, tough gun control laws in New York City and Washington, D.C. have done little...
Rosenthal and other doctors at UHS pitch primary care as a panacea for nearly all of UHS's problems. In a primary care system, patients are matched with physicians who see them as often as scheduling allows and can either treat patients themselves or send them to the appropriate specialist...