Word: symptom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...somber American and his shy wife Sally. Sandinista officials also showed concern. "Eugene Hasenfus is not responsible for the American policy," said a high-ranking Sandinista. "It is in our interest to concentrate more on issues and less on the individual. He is not a cause but a symptom...
...these factors may be involved; the difficulty lies in knowing where the chain begins. In 1976, for example, Davies observed that the brains of Alzheimer's victims lack certain chemicals that are crucial to memory and cognition; however, he subsequently decided that the deficiency was merely a symptom and embarked on a hunt for a cause...
...many extracurricular activities on campus. He claimed that it would be "unbecoming" for the prankster to serve as a student leader on the council. But decorum is hardly a reason to invade the relationship between students and their elected representatives. Its use here as justification is a symptom of the administration's narrow vision of the purpose of student government. The Undergraduate Council's own past conduct may be partly to blame for that narrow image of its function, but student government at Harvard will never be able to effectively address the concerns of the community as long...
...this pigment activity is merely a symptom of what Einset calls a "fluctuation of metabolism" it the trees. "By fall, the metabolism essentially stops and reassimilation of nutrients into the tree begins," Einset says. The leaves begin breaking down, and the nutrients contained in them are absorbed into the bark of the tree. So, the leave fall off and shrivel to crispy, brown leaf corpses. And all over Vermont, people begin burning pile of dead leaves in their front and back yards...
...years ago, a tumor was discovered on Paul LaPorte's spine. It was benign, but it caused a symptom that he kept a darker secret than he would have had the diagnosis been terminal cancer. The growth pressed on the nerves to his bladder, causing it to empty unexpectedly. Surgery seemed too risky, and LaPorte's life became consumed by the harrowing effort to hide his embarrassing condition. He quit jobs and refused advancement. "One employer wanted to promote me to a sales position that meant traveling all over Canada," recalls LaPorte, now 36 and a factory worker in Windsor...