Word: symptom
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...Onofrio says that this tension is a symptom of the larger problem: People simply do not know each other any more...
...good news is that the sheer urgency of change is a symptom of unprecedented vitality in the U.S., Europe, much of Asia and pockets of the developing world. The U.S. economy has been booming along for more than four years at an average of 4.2% growth, and the Board saw that trend continuing in 2000. Now the rest of the world is picking up steam. The pace is by no means even, of course. Some regions, like Latin America, are up against forces they cannot control; others, like Japan, are wallowing in the economic trough of the past. The overall...
...Sometimes it's a symptom of bigger problems," Steen notes of these complaints, "but sometimes it's not a problem...
...upset they weren't consulted before the announcement was made." And while a spokesperson from the Department of the Interior insists that only logging, clear-cutting and mining will be banned from the affected land, there are plenty of ranchers worried about their grazing rights. "This is a symptom of some westerners' inherent antipathy toward Washington and people from the East coming in and telling them how to do things," says Woodbury. Or, in this case, how not to do things...