Word: symptom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...symptom of a frantic society...
Toth's situation helps explain another dismaying symptom: while disease and depression are shortening life expectancy at one end, plummeting birthrates are eating away at the other. For reasons both social and psychological, East Europeans are delaying childbirth or even avoiding it altogether. Birthrates in Russia are down 46%, from...
Harvard is big and impersonal. It is cold and deathly and anonymous outside a lot of the time. But is this a reason or just an excuse and a symptom of something bigger...
...post-cold war world, increasingly the response of choice to the plethora of small-scale slaughters that prick the West's collective conscience but do not seem important enough to command greater diplomatic or military involvement. The travails in delivery last week were only a symptom of the lack of political will in Western capitals to act forcefully. Humanitarian aid feels good to those who insist that something must be done to stop the killing in Bosnia, in Somalia, in a dozen other bloody conflicts. And it is far more politically palatable than sending soldiers to fight...
...years, nature has provided an unequivocal answer. Since 1987, when the Whittier Narrows earthquake caused eight deaths and $350 million in property damage, about half a dozen quakes of significant size have rattled along thrust faults beneath greater Los Angeles. All this activity, many scientists speculate, may . be a symptom that overall tectonic pressure in the region is increasing. For while temblors on secondary faults relieve stress locally, they often put greater strain on larger faults nearby. Of particular concern is the southern part of the San Andreas, which in 1992 was greatly perturbed by a major, 7.3 quake centered...