Word: symptom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of our visit in May, 1975, the visible symptom of an underlying malaise in the Department of Architecture was a surface placidity: the belief, as one faculty member explained it, that the heroic period of innovation is over in architectural design, and all the student can be expected to do is to master what has already been done. One student said: "The faculty is bored with us, and we are bored with them." In April, 1976, most of the discussion centered around what the Dean did, or did not say, before, during and after a speech in Seattle...
...shortage of natural gas that has closed factories and schools throughout the Northeast and Midwest is only the most visible and urgent symptom of the nation's energy crisis. Oil imports continue to hover at a record 44% of the nation's supply-a dangerous dependence on foreign producers that "has got to stop," as President Carter put it at his news conference last week. But domestic oil production is still declining; gasoline may run short during this summer's driving season because refineries will switch from making heating oil to gasoline much later than usual. Construction...
What went wrong? The quick answer is that Volvo's car sales in the U.S. fell from a peak of 60,338 in 1975 to 43,887 last year, a decline of 27.3%. But that drop is only a symptom of a deeper problem that afflicts not only Volvo but all Swedish industry. Essentially, the welfare-state policies of the Swedish government are pushing labor costs so high as to price Swedish products out of the international market...
...first symptom of frostbite is a tingling sensation in the extremities. The skin turns slightly red at first and then becomes pale grayish-yellow and numb. Pain subsides and sometimes blisters begin to appear. At the first signs, the victim should be brought inside and the affected parts warmed with tepid, not hot water. Snow should never be massaged on a frostbitten area. Second-and third-degree frostbites are treated like burns; sometimes victims are hospitalized. Thus it is only commonsensical to suit up for winter as if it were a mortal foe-which it can be (see box following...
...uproar provoked by the attempted elimination of 4-year housing is completely justified and must command the support of all progressive forces within the University. Fox's hallucination however, is merely a symptom of the cancer that is hounding and crippling this community. The real issue is the reckless manner in which the University has been able to run the lives of the very individuals it is supposed to serve as a source of inspiration and livelihood: its students and workers. Put as succinctly as possible: democracy has become little more than a provocative abstraction, or an esoteric topic...