Word: causal
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Knapp, who spoke of her sister’s 10-year struggle with anorexia, drew a direct causal link...
...those Republican House impeachment managers, who feigned outrage at Bill Clinton’s escapades, yet were on the record defending Oliver North’s lies to Congress in the Iran-Contra affair? Indeed, the asymmetry between the Right’s panicked attitude about sex and its causal stance on violence is reflected in the basic partisan dichotomy of scandal in this country: in our lifetimes, Democratic scandals tend to be sexual, while Republican ones are often violent. It was in 1984, the year most college sophomores were born, that Gary Hart’s presidential candidacy imploded...
...increased risk for death from suicide may reflect a greater prevalence of psychopathology." That may sound harsh, but it may also represent an opportunity for early intervention if surgeons spot underlying psychological problems among candidates for implants. This doesn't prove, of course, that there is any direct causal link between the implants--or the desire to have them--and suicidal tendencies. Sometimes a D cup is just a D cup. --By David Bjerklie
...event reports," in the clinical jargon--in which kava users suffered severe liver damage. A few patients required transplants, and at least one died. The response in Europe has been swift and decisive. In the U.S., however, the FDA's hands are tied until researchers can establish a definite causal link between kava and liver disease. That could take years...
...crises of the late 1960s. The Kellers do not really assert that the takeovers of University buildings grew out of inherent failings of the meritocratic University. Nor do they make a clear enough case for how the events bring about worldliness. They do a good job of describing the causal relationship between the takeovers and the shifts in the Universitys administrative culturethe professionalization of its governance. But the turbulence seems disconnected and the foundation of the case for a new institutional culture post-1971 is shaky...