Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...verities of the '80s -- that greed is good, that one can never be too rich or too thin, and that abstinence and exercise will lead to eternal life -- the new decade spells trying times. Mike Tyson's crown has toppled, and the Trumps have split. Oat bran is no panacea; Drexel is bankrupt. "I suspect," says editor E. Graydon Carter, 40, co-founder of Spy magazine, "that when they find red suspenders cause back problems, that will be the final nail in the yuppie coffin...
...inteilectual, economic and political bankruptcy of communism has become apparent in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, it seems odd that the majority opinion calls for more government intervention in the economy as a panacea for America's own social problems...
...January 3 Crimson editorial about SONG, Adam Berger argues that "higher regard for intellectual achievement [is not] a panacea for declining economic competitiveness." He cites China and the Soviet Union as examples of countries with high levels of cultural "pro-intellectualism" yet low technological and economic performance...
...there's something suspect about SONG's grand vision. It's unlikely that a higher regard for intellectual achievement is a panacea for declining American economic competitiveness...