Word: symptom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience in baseball. To sit down with him and talk about the inside functioning of a baseball organization and how to deal with owners and general managers has been enormously helpful. The problem is in baseball. The problem isn't Campanis. Al Campanis is merely an all-but- irrelevant symptom of the problem. To allow him to be turning out there in the wind makes him a scapegoat and ultimately impedes any progress in dealing with the issues in a constructive...
These lotteries became the focus of student discontent, but they are merely a symptom of the problem. While there is no feasible way to eliminate lotteries, a longer shopping period would clearly reduce their disruptive power...
...Apartheid is merely a symptom," said Ramphele. "We need to be focusing on the fundamentals of power in that society...
...many years, the left has let the right control the nation's political agenda. Seeing difficulties in employer-employee relations as a symptom of larger structural problems rather than just a dispute at one company makes it simpler for the left to redefine the agenda in terms of economic justice...
Martin said in the statement that the center was founded on the premise that chronic neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzeheimer's might best be understood by exploring their causes at the genetic level, rather than trying to identify a particular symptom...