Word: symptom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some professors emphasize that "the education deficit" is only a symptom of a greater social problem...
...half a century, doctors have been treating cystic fibrosis symptom by symptom, doing their best to stem the rising tide of mucus triggered by the disease. As this abnormally thick fluid builds up in the lungs, pancreas, liver and other organs, it not only serves as fertile ground for damaging infections but also blocks the passage of vital digestive enzymes to the intestine and stops up sperm in the testes. As a result, patients have difficulty breathing, digesting food and even reproducing. "This is a disease that simply wears you down," says Ramsey...
...What is important is not so much what Leonard Jeffries says as the fact that many Blacks listen to him," Mansfield said. "He's more important as a symptom than as a cause...
THESE SHORT-TERM MISSTEPS are both cause and symptom of a failed presidency. Of course, later this year--say, around the time George Bush turns 68 in July, when short-term remedies bring the economy up a bit and when the Bush campaign is running full-speed--Bush won't look so bad. Few will remember the poor appointments, the unwillingness to create a long-term economic strategy, the erstwhile Buchanan challenge...
Though political correctness is the issue most often associated with groups like his, Aronowitz said that PC is not the only debate at stake. "PC is merely a symptom of the greater problem of the conservatives," Aronowitz said...