Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee's report offers no panacea. According to Buell, the proposals forwarded to the Faculty last week came to the committee because, "they were the [place] where anything like consensus was formed between department heads...
...Medicaid already pays far less to health providers than Medicare and private insurers pay; nursing homes, for example, often get 25% to 30% less. If payments fall further, more doctors and hospitals could simply refuse to treat Medicaid patients. Managed care, meanwhile, is still touted as a cost-saving panacea. And it does hold promise, as many state experiments attest. But there may be only so much efficiency to be extracted from the treatment of, say, disabled seniors tethered to oxygen machines...
...Deaconess Hospital, tells TIME's Christine Gorman that prayer has been particularly noteworthy in cardiology. "Benson, who has been establishing a scientific grounding for the power of prayer, found the technique alone can lower a person's blood pressure ten points," Gorman notes. "Prayer will never be a panacea or a replacement for modern medicine, but it's becoming increasing clear that meditation can have a profound impact on the body...
Overly ambitious Perhaps Yet many of Postman's arguments ring disturbingly true. He criticizes those who view technology as a panacea, noting that though the Internet may be an excellent disseminator of information, teacher student and student - student interaction is irreplaceable. He also deplores the mutation of cultural pluralism into "multiculturalism." While the former advocates the acceptance and inclusion of all cultures, he believes the latter seems preoccupied with a dangerously divisive, ethnocentric fragmentation...
...diplomat. The "messianic feeling, chiefly in the U.S.," that fueled it was captured by Hull's pronouncement, Eban believes. "It was the most ill-considered statement in the history of diplomacy, because he was saying that international organization--which after all is a mechanism, not a principle--was a panacea which would make all previous diplomacy obsolete. It turned out to be totally untrue...