Word: panacea
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...first time in the U.S. the complete and authoritative versions of Freud's own writings on the drug, including several pieces never before published, along with the work of other early experimenters. Freud is revealed as not only a hard-driven and, ultimately, tragic seeker for a panacea, but also as one of the pioneers of psychopharmacology, the modern science of using drugs to treat mental illness...
MEATLESS DAYS should not be seen as a panacea for the world's food problems. Even if every American turned vegetarian tomorrow, there is no reason to believe that the extra grain made available would reach the people who need it most. Before that can happen, there must be a fundamental change in the theory and practice of food aid programs, both in the United States and in other rich countries. And judging by Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz's performance at the World Food Conference in Rome two weeks ago, that change may be a long...
Marks said the CIA is used when leaders feel they cannot get away with a policy action in public. The CIA has become a "panacea for all policy problems," he said...
...been working on an autobiography. Deaths, resignations, other retirements and Nixon's appointment of conservatives have eroded the involved, liberal majority that was the core of the Warren Court. The hopes raised by some of the decisions now may seem simplistic. Brown, for instance, was not the panacea for racial inequality that many may have envisioned. In their concern for citizens' rights however, the decisions were peculiarly American and epic. They survive, and so will Earl Warren's place in U.S. history. Early in the Republic, the court's great challenge was to ensure the strength...
...buyer's pocketbook. Neither are any of the 58 listed ingredients of another Chinatown favorite for aches and pains: ginseng rejuvenating pills, which are made in Hong Kong and contain such exotica as male mouse droppings, silkworm, rhinoceros horn, amber, turtle shell and myrrh. But this ancient Oriental panacea also contains an unlisted substance: the powerful Western painkiller phenylbutazone, a drug that has been linked with at least five cases of a rare and frequently fatal blood disease among users of ginseng pills...