And I think we decided to pull the Band-Aid off as quickly as possible.
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Like Band-Aid and Velcro, GED is a brand name often confused as a generic.
The latter should lead you to rip the band-aid off and force some haircuts.
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Subsidizing energy companies and throwing money at states often leads to waste, delays and a Band-Aid approach.
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Rubio talks about putting a Band-Aid on the patient's little finger, while silently stabbing him in the back.
You put a band-aid on a wound only to find out it was dirty and caused an infection elsewhere.
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"People are trying to put a band-aid on a heart attack, but it's not the right remedy, " he says.
Draghi re-financing operations are more a band-aid than a fire hose, providing temporary support but not a long-lasting solution.
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Yet, they know this is just a Band-Aid with another crisis likely coming at the next coupon payment date.
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That was like putting a Sponge Bob band-aid on a gaping surgical wound.
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" nyu prof Nestle scoffs at the entire effort: "Until the issue of calories is addressed, everything else is a Band-Aid.
Throwing a Band-Aid over a bad wound is actually a decent strategy, if the Band-Aid helps the wound to heal itself.
In most cases, a scrape or cut mends itself or can be helped along with a Band-Aid and some antibiotic cream.
What was widely praised as a bold, far-sighted solution to the state's infrastructure problems is in fact little more than a Band-Aid.
It also requires a culture that approaches it as a way of life rather than a short-term band-aid for current business problems.
They rip the Band-Aid off and get down to the important stuff.
But that was like using a Band-Aid to staunch a cancerous tumor.
Forcing the customer to pay for anything beyond a band-aid-style fix may mean the flaw will remain unpatched in many cases, warns Brocious.
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In other words, Washington is bleeding internally while the doctors in Congress are squabbling over what Band-Aid to put over the bullet wound.
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"It's still sort of a Band-Aid, stopgap measure, to keep state regulators at bay until they can come up with a new framework, " agrees Passmore.
But even if they'd had more practice time, expecting that to fix things seems like the equivalent of putting a Band-Aid over a broken bone.
Instead of the butterfly effect call it the band-aid effect.
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Have they saved a small country from bankruptcy and applied a Band-Aid to yet another crisis or have they sent a dangerous message to savers elsewhere?
If there were a commitment to speaking the truth, in all its messiness, we could tackle issues in their entirety rather than pushing politically expedient Band-Aid solutions.
But everything isn't coming up roses for the Band-Aid maker.
"Ultimately, this is no more than a temporary Band-Aid that fails to address the overarching threat to our economy posed by the sequester's mindless, across-the-board cuts, " said Mr Carney.
The Greek parliament approved the new austerity measures yesterday and Greece will get the next tranche of bailout money to tide it over, but this is a mere band-aid.
There will have to be a number of emergency summits once again, as everyone realizes that the actions enacted in 2011 were only band-aid measures and that real problems remain.
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