Word: panacea
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RHODESIA FELL only after bloody struggle, and today the world and freedom fighters must appraise the future of the remaining subjugated nations in southern Africa. Moralists, who fear armed struggle but who know change must come, promote their panacea, passive resistance. Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. each used this weapon of peace to successfully obtain relief from two of the world's strongest nations, and their disciples believe it will work anywhere...
...Beanpot is the panacea for Boston-area hockey programs. Win one, and the whole school gets a boost. Three high school seniors attended the tournament last year, guests of Northeastern. They watched the Huskies take the trophy, and now they're part of the pack that has transformed last year's 7-20 squad into a national power. That's what The Beanpot...
...everyone, of course, is so euphoric about the coming robot age. Brian Carlisle, Unimation's general manager for West Coast research, warns that "we're a long way from a robot that can assemble a carburetor." Nor are robots a panacea for all the ills that industry is heir to. The most automated factory of its time was the Lordstown plant that GM designed to produce the unsuccessful Vega, evidence that productivity is not worth much if the product is hard to sell. As the robotmakers look ahead, though, they see a promised land. It is a land...
...group, which includes people like Karen Keesling, a member of Reagan's women advisory board, and Senator Nancy Kassenbaum of Kansas, say ERA-backers have misled women into thinking that the amendment would be a panacea for discrimination. More important than the ERA, they say, will be a Republican commitment to waging a statute-by-statute battle to tear down the "hundreds" of federal regulations that discriminate against women...
...when used in the right amounts at the proper time in the right neighborhoods, the tax breaks can help turn our cities around. Only John Anderson puts the tax break in this more accurate perspective. Jimmy Carter rejects the idea totally. Ronald Reagan unrealistically views it as a panacea...