Word: symptom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent months, the practice has not only risen to alarming proportions but has emerged as the symptom of a deep-seated economic malaise. Last year the illegal flight of lire rose to $2.25 billion, enough to wipe out the benefits of Italy's overall trade surplus and create a $1.37 billion balance of payments deficit. A winter wave of strikes cost many industries the equivalent of a month's production. The resulting wage increases (average: 15%) have been followed by rising prices...
LIBERALISM (1953): "Liberal is what everybody would like to be." Yes, of course, and why? Very simple; because we are all Americans. Even the reactionaries today call themselves the "true" liberals. If there's anything wrong with America today, it could be summed up in one symptom: that Americans don't quite know what it is to be m liberal-joyously, thankfully, proudly liberal. For America is the supreme embodiment of the Great Liberal Tradition and if, for as much as one generation, America forgets d what it is to be liberal, then America will no longer...
...materials, and methods for the schools and the teachers. His own expert prescription for the problems of the schools is yet another theoretical elixir of little practical use as medicine and perhaps likely to have harmful side effects. Jones's fundamental weakness lies in his diagnosing and treating one symptom-the rationalistic bias-as if it were the entire disease, the entire problem, of American education...
...judicial system," he said. "When a trial becomes fundamentally an examination of political acts and beliefs, then guilt or innocence becomes almost irrelevant." Protests, many of them violent, broke out against the Chicago convictions in cities and on campuses around the land. The trial was not only a symptom of the division in America; it also deepened...
...staff of Harper's Magazine, relies heavily on such physical facts, construed more logically, to prove murder. On authority from forensic medicine, she makes the point that men on the point of suicide do not lose control of their bowels. Such loss of control is a symptom of the last stages of suffocation. As the author visualizes it, the struggle between the 200-lb. Czech statesman and his assailants began in the bedroom and progressed to the bathroom. There they finally managed to hold him down in the tub and stifle him with pillows. When he was unconscious...