Word: symptom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handle stress, says Saddam's fluttering eyelids may be a sign of mental breakdown. "When salesmen start blinking, they're usually in trouble," says Molloy. "The guy looks like he's falling apart." While medical researchers are split over the significance of rapid blinking, battlefield commanders confirm that the symptom is common among soldiers who have endured heavy bombardment...
...free world. All that is left of Vietnam is the Vietnam Memorial. The confidence in America's right and trust in America's power that were the legacy of World War II collapsed in the face of ambiguity and defeat in Vietnam. Vietnam became a metaphor for futility, a symptom of the corrosion and corruption of the American dream. The notion of American decline, prefigured in Jimmy Carter's idea of national limits, could exist only in a people still demoralized by defeat in Vietnam...
...handing out hope to the poor. But it turned out to be a nettlesome problem, for homelessness is not the same as houselessness. Each disaster has its own genealogy; the problems of the street people only begin with the need for shelter. Perhaps that is because homelessness is a symptom of every other social ill: drugs, crime, poverty, teenage pregnancy, illiteracy, violence, even the decline of compassion during the me-first...
...cacophony over Revolution Day is only a mild symptom of the Soviet Union's potential dissolution. Perhaps this Gorbachev order will be grudgingly obeyed. But many of the edicts that he has been issuing under a law enabling him, in theory, to govern virtually by decree amount to the unheard roars of a paper tiger. In some cases the Kremlin and the republics have been playing out a ritualized farce. The center, as it is now called, issues a Gorbachev decree; one or more republics declare it to be null and void on their territory; Gorbachev issues a second order...
...suits and one-of-the-boys manner that always seemed less a style than a disguise. In psychology the old view that autonomy is the hallmark of mental health is being revamped. A sense of "connectedness" to others is now being viewed as a healthy trait rather than a symptom of "dependent personality disorder." In politics women candidates are finding that issues they emphasize may carry more weight than ever with voters tired of the guns-not-butter budgets of the 1980s...