panacea

• “Panax, the genus name, comes from the Latin word panacea, meaning “cure-all,” and indeed, the claims for ginseng, of which scientists have historically been skeptical, imply a near-miraculous ability to address a wide variety of problems.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Best Alternative Medicine

• “But education, which we speak of as a panacea for all ills, only deals with what it finds, and does not, as we ought to claim, rub down bad points and accentuate good, and it is this, that perhaps more than anything else has made me a Determinist, that the very capacity for change and improvement is so native to some characters, and so utterly lacking to others.”

  Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton B A Of Trinity College Cambridge

• “Printing money may sound attractive to the desperate, but it is at best a short-term panacea, which solves nothing in the long run, and creates its own set of complications and economic distortions.”

  The Huffington Post: Sheldon Filger: European Central Bank And The Sovereign Debt Crisis

• “Bush and Kristol's "troop surge" panacea is most likely totally wrong, but how Bush went about it shows that he privileges electoral necessity over military necessity.”

  Archive 2007-01-01

• “Ethanol of course is often described as a panacea but it comes with problems of its own.”

  CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2006

• “Last week's bond buying by the ECB was a short-term panacea but it does not resolve the underlying problems," said Neil MacKinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital.”

  Eurozone under pressure to aid euro with more cash - Yahoo! Finance

• “There is no short or long term panacea for the rescue squad.”

  Fort Mill Times: News

• “Given that there is no short-term panacea for long-term decline, I'm not sure that it can do other than what it already is doing.”

  CNET News.com

• “Demolishing further ecologies for the short-term panacea it offers to our (global?) civilisation seems foolish to me: eventually the chickens will come home to roost.”

  New Scientist - Earth

• “Even when the government gets around to what it sees as its fix, its panacea, which is just legislation, it does not seem to get that its legislation alone will not solve the problems we have with organized crime, drug abuse and the drug culture and drug crime industry in this community …”

  Don’t Do Mandatory Drug Sentences : Law is Cool

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