Word: panacea
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...privy purses, but she has yet to move to break up large agricultural holdings or redistribute wealth and property as she promised in her last campaign. One reason is that few any longer believe that public ownership, with its accompanying reams of red tape, will necessarily provide a panacea for India's problems. Indira's efforts have been aimed at generating greater production both in the private and public sector and hence providing greater employment while curbing inflation...
...Clapp and cox Louie DeLosso were picked from Nash's varsity, a slight which supposedly stung the Penn eight so keenly that they won the IRA finals by two lengths to indicate their displeasure. Parker subsequently invited several additional Quakers to the Hanover, N. H., summer camp as a panacea...
...streets of Cambridge are the panacea,--"No parents--just Kids"--and Sanctuary is a stopping place for the disillusioned on the rebound while they recuperate from the terrible struggle to survive. The Sanctuary staff is close enough in age and temperament to the kids it counsels that it can admit their uncertainty and alienation. What can these kids do with themselves with no money, in a country such as this? What will work? Where do you draw the line? Blum and Smith recall the dilemma of establishing some kind of Legitimate moral authority in the storefront...
...Several physicians have used DES to prevent pregnancies in rape victims, and Dr. Takey Crist and Cecil Farrington of the University of North Carolina reported last week that they had used an animal estrogen successfully with 94 patients. But neither Dr. Kuchera nor her colleagues see DES as a panacea for unwanted pregnancies. The drug has been linked to cancer of the vagina in the daughters of women who took it for other purposes (TIME, Aug. 2). The Food and Drug Administration has not approved it for general use as a pregnancy preventive. Until DES is better understood...
...potential panacea is isoprinosine, a derivative of the chemical inosine found in muscle tissue. In 1958, Gordon began experimenting with inosine to lessen "absentmindedness" in aged rats and mice. The substance, which stimulates protein production by brain cells, worked. Gordon observed that the drug also prevented viral action by blocking the genetic information that viruses must carry into cells in order to reproduce themselves (TIME, April 19). Speculating that the drug's antiviral action might be a useful medical tool, Gordon began to search for a derivative that did not have inosine's unpleasant side effect, a prolonged...