Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what should Clinton have proposed? Even his critics have no concrete plans of their own. Some make vague suggestions about stock market-based fixes. A few states are offering tax breaks as incentives to purchase insurance. But no proposal looks like a national panacea. Other experts suggest raising the Medicaid income eligibility level but can't say how to pay the huge bill. The best chance for a fix may come as 76 million baby boomers retire over the next 30 years--what Clinton calls the "senior boom." That generation could change the face of America again, forcing reform...
Clearly, gene therapy is not yet a panacea. Anderson concedes that except for reports of individual patients being helped, "there is still no conclusive evidence that a gene-therapy protocol has been successful in the treatment of a human disease...
...Ritalin is not a panacea. It won't boost IQ or take away the learning disabilities that affect 15% of youngsters with ADHD...
...John G. Rowland had to commit $1 billion to a new convention center and stadium on its dilapidated waterfront. Meanwhile, the city--one of the nation's poorest--struggles to fund its schools. Hartford is not the only city with such skewed priorities. A new stadium is not a panacea for urban renewal. With so many more pressing needs, it is a wonder that cities continue to pay the ransoms demanded by team owners...
Jeeves, of course, is not a panacea for the difficulties of the Information Age. Questions outside the scope of Jeeves' knowledge base, such as those of a particularly specific or technical nature, tend to leave the user stranded in the glut of Internet information. Although Jeeves attempts to compensate for this behavior by submitting unfamiliar questions to popular search engines, this hardly provides a particularly useful mechanism for searching...