Word: symptom
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Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffery D. Sachs labeled the African AIDS epidemic a symptom of a larger socioeconomic crisis afflicting the African continent in a speech at the Kennedy School of Government last night...
...Although Sharon is likely to jam the brakes on the frenzied peace talks of the weeks leading up to the election, his victory is a symptom of the failure of the peace process, rather than its cause. The Likud leader had campaigned against what he saw as Ehud Barak's reckless handling of negotiations with the Palestinians, and has made no secret of the fact that he plans a major rewind of the peace process - his message to the Palestinians has been to disregard any offers made by the Barak government. Rather than trying to finalize a peace agreement, Sharon...
...blame them? There was, after all, a new drug "cocktail" in town, and with assiduous self-medication, HIV-positive patients could now live virtually symptom-free for years. Everyone who could afford it was shoveling back the expensive combinations of drugs, and the side effects ranged from unpleasant to downright awful. But it sure as heck beat AIDS...
...corruption has cost the country some $48 billion over the past 20 years. It was precisely by (falsely) promising to eradicate corruption that Estrada had first cast himself in the role of a champion of the poor. In the final analysis, though, he may prove to have been a symptom rather than the cause of his nation's malaise...
...something is wrong--though it's not always clear just what the problem is. Doctors can't measure pain objectively the way they can blood pressure or cholesterol levels. So when pain doesn't immediately respond to treatment, physicians and patients often--too often--accept it as just another symptom that has to be lived with...