Word: symptom
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...tortured patient who could not perceive objects from his left fieƒld of vision, Bartkus is impressive as a man who speaks rapidly in half-words and even, as a symptom of his disorder, invented some new words. Equally remarkable were performances by Videt, as a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Redko as a man who can no longer recognize the face of his wife...
Nonetheless, apprehension runs deep on the Continent that the nuclear-arms race between the superpowers is accelerating and that the battlegrounds of World War II could be those of a future East-West conflict. That fear is in a sense a permanent symptom of Europe's subordinate, postwar place in the nuclear-dominated world. In Western Europe's uncertain mood, governments and institutions have begun to recognize that there are limits to their ability to deal with change. Authority and self-confidence have come under some strain. Once mighty traditional labor unions are on the defensive, losing membership and influence...
...massive exodus from Zimbabwe is both symptom and cause of the country's decline. Beset by drought and food shortages, runaway inflation and 80% unemployment, Zimbabwe's economy is just two-thirds the size it was in 1999. The country's best and brightest - medics, accountants, teachers, engineers and other skilled workers - are leaving in droves. The U.S. State Department says that 1,200 doctors trained in Zimbabwe in the 1990s, but by 2001, only 360 remained; some 18,000 nurses departed, too. The situation is now even worse. "It's no longer just a brain drain; it's much...
Back in the fall of 2001, Tufts Dean Charles Inouye told the Tufts Daily News that grade inflation at Harvard was “just another symptom of their culture of arrogance—image over substance.” And he went further. “Everybody in the business knows just how little Harvard students work,” he asserted. “They’re essentially a lazy bunch. A lot of them aren’t even that smart...
...despite this harmonious appearance, the student-faculty dinner is a symptom of something troubling. The very reason we enjoy the meal, its exceptionality, is the very problem at the heart of the whole event. By holding these dinners, our House Masters and dining hall managers imply that, as a condition for professors to join students for a meal in the dining hall, there needs to be special attire, special food and drink...