Word: panacea
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...dealing with billions of animals, not just human beings. But I still believe there is a window of opportunity. That's why we should implement all the necessary strategies - cleaning up backyard farms, improving surveillance - not just on a piecemeal basis but comprehensively and thoroughly. There is no single panacea...
...willing to try anything. Four years later, she has five bedrooms. "Now I have a palace," she says. "This has changed our life." Not everyone agrees with Prahalad's theory that the lower classes will benefit from being part of mainstream global trade. "To suggest this is a panacea for poverty reduction is really not justified," says Ashvin Dayal, East Asia director for the antipoverty group Oxfam UK. "Selling to the poor and serving the poor are not exactly the same thing." Oxfam is wary that aggressive corporate marketing might displace existing local products or encourage overspending by those...
...agitation over No Child is not just about money, most experts agree. The Federal Government pays only about 8% of schooling costs. So changing the federal contibution has only so much impact. In fact, money--from any source--is not a panacea. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. has tripled per-pupil spending in constant dollars, to roughly $10,800 a child, more than almost any other nation. And yet it gets average or below-average results compared with other First World countries...
These advantages aside, a union is no panacea. From an undergraduate’s perspective, unions could hold many downsides. A standardized pay scale could encourage TFs to increase the amount of hours they work by taking over responsibilities from professors, leading to the institutionalization of graduate-student teaching and the expansion of the role of the TF in the classroom. It also might encourage graduate students to work on more classes, spreading their resources too thin and leaving undergraduates neglected. Also, despite what graduate students are saying in their push for unions, it is likely that any union would...
However, the spread of democracy is no panacea; by itself, democracy will not solve all of the problems in the third world. Poverty will not magically disappear, corruption will prove difficult to eradicate, ethnic tensions could increase, and democracy itself can backslide toward authoritarian personal rule (e.g., Russia). Nevertheless, democratic rule is almost always a step forward. The problems faced by a new democratic leadership—like secessionist regions in Georgia or control of Kirkuk in Iraq—will have to be faced eventually. Autocratic rule did not solve these problems, and continued repression will only make them...