Word: panaceas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marathoner was game for anything, and his doctors put him on iron supplements. Although Clements' theory is not endorsed by many s experts, Salazar has embraced it as a panacea. He finds evidence of improvement. Although he finished third in a 10,000-meter race in Eugene, Ore., on April 7, he was encouraged by his time-27:56-and his strength at the finish. Whether a lack of iron is the answer, Salazar wants to believe that the problem lies in his body, not his head. Says he: "I had so many people telling me it was mental...
...moving to get rights to strip-mine the Lakota land, one of the poorest in the country, a bare plot of 4500 square miles in southwest South Dakota. Their goal is the fantastically lucrative uranium bed that sits under the land and that could, if properly cultivated, prove a panacea to the tribe's poverty. It could mean, among other things, hundreds of thousands of dollars for education and jobs. It could also scatter acres of carcinogenic dust and toxic uranium across the tribe's reservation...
Furthermore; the majority panacea of a Democratic vote in 1984 is ludicrous...
LATELY, the single warhead Midgetman has come to the fore of strategic thought as a panacea in the land based missile dilemma. Small and mobile, it could not be struck and disarmed in one blow, however, its cost would be great and it could not be deployed until until the year 2000. Using the Midgetman philosophy, but applying it now, why not scrap all land based ICBMs and develop a system of only small potent cruise missiles...
...singleminded emphasis on unusual ability would be elitist, particularly in a society where many still lack the fundamentals. But, the problem of low academic performance is distinct from that of technological superiority, and it requires a different solution. Back-to-basics advocates mistakenly present their program as a panacea, which would solve both problems...