Word: panaceas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Instead of speaking from the heart, Kemp has spent the past few years speaking for pay, for as much as $35,000 a pop, to groups around the country. He wasn't expanding the nation's economic pie but his own. Even his role as the prophet of the panacea of tax cuts seemed to have been ceded to his onetime protege Steve Forbes. Only three weeks ago, at one of the regular dinners of the pro-growth gang known as the Five Amigos--Kemp, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senator Connie Mack of Florida, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber...
...Republican Contract With America offered a panacea for the country's ills; and President Clinton, with his vaunted political instincts, adopted the most salient elements of the panacea. Now the Democrats are trying to further counter the Republicans with their plan, which they call Families First. Moreover, by declaring wars on poverty, drugs, three strikes and you are out slogans etc., by putting 100,000 more police officers on the street, the president as well as his adversaries are hoping to address America's social ills. The problem is that in the long run, as we have thus far witnessed...
...multitude of TV programs available to their kids. The device has already been a godsend for politicians--a way of seeming to take action on TV violence while avoiding sticky issues of censorship or government control. Most children's activists welcome the device, yet recognize it is not a panacea. "The V chip doesn't do anything to decrease violence," says Arnold Fege of the National Parent-Teacher Association. "There are parents who are not going to use it at all. But it does give parents some control...
...axiom of economics that to get inflation down, you have to tolerate slower growth for a time; to boost employment, you risk some inflation. As with most trade-offs, Forbes says this one doesn't exist. Instead, he is pro-panacea. Growth, tax cuts, gold and free trade are his painless cures of choice. He scorns "austerity" in all its guises. "Obstacles lurk everywhere to achieving our full potential," Forbes says, be they progressive taxation, outdated telecommunications laws or "idiotic" economic policies in Germany. The victims waiting to be "unshackled" are likewise ubiquitous: inner-city entrepreneurs, long-suffering citizens...
Freedom is not a panacea and sometimes the spiritual comfort it offers can be deceiving. Just last week in Seattle a 15-year-old walked into a junior high school classroom with a high-powered rifle and killed two of his classmates and his teacher. Doesn't this kind of story sound familiar? Whether the people in a country enjoy their freedom really doesn't suggest that the country necessarily excels in other aspects. Then, the question is: is freedom, above all other things, absolutely the Number One thing for the Chinese to desire at present...