Word: symptom
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...promise to bury the Oslo peace process. President Bush's "road map" toward peace is little more than an empty mantra occasionally mouthed by both sides when the Americans are listening, but which neither has shown any serious inclination to implement. If anything, Hamas's victory is a symptom of the failure of the peace process...
...symptom of lobbying run amuck is the proliferation of earmarks--spending placed in legislation, often without public review, for specific projects. "Beating up on lobbyists is easy to do, but we have to put our own house in order, and at the top of that list is earmark reform," says Republican Congressman Jeff Flake of Arizona. The most famous recent earmark was last fall's so-called Bridge to Nowhere--a provision that Representatives from Alaska inserted into a bill to spend close to $223 million to make it easier to reach a virtually uninhabited area of the state...
...allot 30 minutes a day for thinking, relaxing or meditating, and get significant doses of what he calls vitamin C--the live connection to other people. "As much as we are connected electronically, we have disconnected interpersonally," he says. Compulsive screen sucking, he suggests, may actually be a symptom of vitamin-C deficiency. To perform your best, maintain your individual creativity and avoid the pitfalls of ADT, he insists, "you want to have some face-to-face moments of closeness." And when you do, turn off that blinking BlackBerry...
...increase in the budget deficit. All told, the House spending bill does absolutely nothing to reduce the deficit while inflicting great harm on the poor. Even within the bill, there are provisions for $35 billion in new spending, including giveaways to dairy farmers and doctors—a symptom of Congress’s dangerous addiction to pork-barrel spending. Instead of seeking to cut much needed social spending, House Republicans should look to excise their propensity for earmarks, which produced $24 billion in pork in the recent highway bill alone. Instead of building the “Bridge...
...which she describes "as a horrible energy that fills you with angst and dread and propels you to move about constantly." Akathisia can be a manifestation of SSRI sensitivity, and "it's psychiatry's dirty little secret," says skeptic Lucire. But Beddoe's psychiatrist saw it as just another symptom of his patient's illness...