Word: symptom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looting is undoubtedly a symptom of some serious problems in our society. First, this kind of behavior reveals a failure of the family, the church and the schools to instill basic moral standards among a sizable part of the population. I feel that the schools bear a special responsibility in the inner city...
...only drug advised by doctors, but warned that many people are courting disaster by using it without first seeking medical attention. In some cases, self-medication with aspirin may be inadequate and in others totally wrong. In gonorrhea, for example, arthritis-like pains are sometimes the only obvious symptom. Anyone relying on aspirin who has this disease is thus doing nothing to control the dangerous underlying bacterial infection...
Striking predominantly women in their childbearing years, lupus erythematosus ("red wolf disease") was given its bizarre name by 19th century doctors who thought that its characteristic reddish rash resembled a wolfs bite. Now physicians know that discolored skin is only one symptom of a far more pervasive ailment. Like rheumatoid arthritis, SLE is one of the so-called autoimmune diseases, caused by the body literally waging war on itself...
...presidents feel that the commercialization of the film societies is the most serious symptom of the increased competition. Tim Tankosic '78, president of the Winthrop House Film Society, said he has shown some films for financial reasons he would rather not be associated with. "It's an unhappy mix of trying to make money and trying to show good films," Tankosic added...
...situation should be covered in news broadcasts, but without any mention of the terrorists' demands. When there is no glory, no profit, no support for any cause to be gained by the capturing and holding of hostages, this particular symptom will cease to appear...