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...Nixon himself admitted, no system represents a panacea. Undoubtedly, there will be difficulty in defining what constitutes a "suitable" job for potential applicants. Incentive to work may be dampened if unemployed men are forced to travel great distances to work, even if their transportation is paid. Coordination among levels of government is always a complicated process and, logical as the plan may sound to middle-class taxpayers and legislators, it is the response of the poor themselves that will be crucial to its success...
FACED WITH these threats, many of the older residents of Cambridge have been looking for a solution or, perhaps more accurately, a panacea. Rent control on its face appeared to offer it: an insurance that one could stay the rest of one's days in the familial apartment, free from worries about rent increases. No matter that a rent control bill, any rent control bill, can't provide complete protection against rent raises, that it won't stop, the Inner Belt, or that it may even be impossible for Cambridge to pass a rent control ordinance without a specific enabling...
...massive as BART's plan is now, and as large as it may become in the future, it will never be a complete panacea for the traffic problems facing San Francisco. Even the system's strongest adherents admit that the freeways will probably always be jammed. Still, BART is an important alternative. Without it, the next 20 years could bring total chaos on the roads leading into San Francisco-a fate that could also befall other less-prepared cities. However, help may be available for many communities in the next few years. Transportation Secretary John Volpe said last...
Crisis intervention is not a panacea for mental illness. It does not benefit the patient whose emotional problems, however upsetting, are not overwhelming -the so-called normal neurotic who either applies for long-term therapy, if he can afford it, or else manages to live with his problems. Many therapists flatly reject it-and so do some patients. Says Detroit's Danto: "Often you have to talk your way in. They don't see you as the Ajax knight coming in to zap them clean...
...kind of international money, called special drawing rights, to supplement dollars, pounds and gold. S.D.R.s, bookkeeping entries designed to expand the reserves of individual countries, should help bankroll world trade. But, warns Bank for International Settlements President Jelle Zijlstra of The Netherlands, they "are not a panacea for the difficulties that must be dealt with...