Word: panacea
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...current euphoria among those who are introducing legalized gambling and those who are welcoming it, it is already clear that in its present forms it can be no panacea for states' and cities' budgetary woes, and it poses little threat to illicit gambling. Yet in one sense, legalizing gambling is a healthy recognition of reality, one of society's periodic and necessary adjustments of its laws to changing mores and unchanging human nature. Almost by definition, such evolutions solve some problems and create others. It is far too early to wager on whether the U.S. will win or lose...
...over with you, anytime, his place over pepperoni and homemade wine. You're a journalist looking for an interview? Come on over tonight, we're having lasagna dinner at city hall and, oh yes, there might be some special Vellucci brand homemade wine. It may not be the accepted panacea for all your political ills, but, in Al's mind, you can get pretty far with a smile and a glass of homemade wine. I'd like to taste the stuff sometime; our mayor has gotten more political mileage with homemade wine than a Chevette gets on a tank...
...reject détente entirely, just as it rejected a Soviet-American trade agreement earlier this year, when Congress insisted, as part of the package, that more Soviet Jews be allowed to emigrate. Indeed, Kissinger concludes, détente may have been oversold in the U.S. It is not a panacea for peace. It is instead a means by which two mutually hostile societies can compete, co-exist and occasionally resolve their differences...
...salary because the money can be made up on the outside." At Harvard, Griliches concludes, with the strip of technological firms along Route 128, the more than 100 consulting companies in the Boston area, and the east coast network of law firms, "there is a whole panacea of opportunities for outside work...
...opportunity for Britain to become not only self-sufficient in energy but also a modest exporter, probably in the 1980s, pumping oil revenues into its sick economy, wiping out its balance of payments deficit and reversing 30 years of economic decline. Critics say the oil will afford no such panacea; they assert that Britain's problems run deeper than any cure offered by the North Sea. But even they concede that the oil could bring an important economic pick...