Sentences with phrase «standard nostrum»

The IMF, and its partners in the troika, first proposed its standard nostrum for a highly indebted sovereign: incur more debt.

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After throwing up the standard straw men — «At its core, the reform movement believes that great teachers and improved teaching methods are all that's required to improve student performance, so that's all the reformers focus on,» «reformers act as if a student's home life is irrelevant,» «Dodd [the teacher] does everything a school reformer could hope for» — he rolls out the woefully tired and hopelessly unhelpful nostrum: «What needs to be acknowledged, however, is that school reform won't fix everything.»