Word: panacea
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...Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week attacked those theorists who contend that federal spending should be increased to stimulate the economy. Said Rockefeller before the National Association of Manufacturers' congress in Manhattan: "I completely reject these notions. Economic growth cannot be achieved by such massive Government spending. This panacea has failed every time it has been tried throughout our history." Rockefeller argued that any tax cut should be aimed at increasing industrial investment, not at beefing up consumer purchasing power...
Although young Negroes have sometimes regarded the sit-ins as a panacea. Galphin said that the "sit-ins have had their effect in that the Negro will never again let segregation go unchallenged." The sit-ins have proved the bankruptcy of that white myth that "good Negroes really don't want integration," he stated...
F.L.N. representatives pleaded for responsible behavior. A speaker told a Moslem rally at Blida: "Independence is not a panacea. The watchwords are work, will power, obedience, discipline." In Tunis the F.L.N. leaders who seven years ago launched the war against France prepared for the return to Algeria. But as peace moved ever closer between Moslems and Europeans, there were rumors of violent discord in the F.L.N., with the lines being drawn between Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda, who heads the moderates, and the left-wing radicals under Vice Premier Mohammed ben Bella, who argues that the F.L.N. is being too soft...
...boost in fertilizer production by 1980, and increased "Leninist incentives" (i.e., pay for peasants). Burying his seven-year-old decentralization program, Khrushchev put responsibility for agriculture on a vast central administration. With all the fervor of his old crusade for corn, he even plugged a brand-new party-line panacea: abandonment of Stalin's system of sowing grain fields to grass every few years.* Instead of allowing almost half the valuable land to lie fallow, Khrushchev decreed that farmers henceforth will rotate grain with peas, beans, sugar beets and other crops...
Only by combing such moves can Harvard at once emphasize the imminent danger of war and reject the false promises of the shelter panacea. When action makes survival a real hope, the University must act. But it is past time for playing wishing games with our chances in the year to come...