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This could lead some Americans to believe that the energy crisis is over, which it most assuredly is not. One symptom: layoffs resulting from the crisis are spreading. In January the nation's unemployment rate rose from 4.8% to 5.2%. The Bureau of Labor Statistics attributed a "substantial" proportion of new joblessness to shortages of fuel and power. More ominously, Federal Energy Chief William Simon warned last week that the home-heating-oil situation is still "critical," although stocks stand at 185 million bbl., v. 137 million bbl. at the same time last year, when stocks were abnormally...
...primary purpose of the symposium, its organizers said, was to educate people to the problem of child abuse. "Child abuse is the symptom of a much larger problem in American society," Michael Turner, a social worker, said. "The child himself is not the problem; children are helpless...
...innocence myth--the new land was stolen from Indians who were hanged or murdered for trying to retake it. Troell does not blame the immigrants for a situation they did not create ("I paid a fair price for the land," says Karl-Oscar). The Indian dilemma is a symptom of the wider problem that underlies the history of the immigrant experience. At the center of the quest for the immigrant dream is a hollow place, born of the loss of the old home and bred of the sacrifices that won a new one. As Karl-Oscar grows older, he prospers...
...Nixon put 2,000,000 U.S. servicemen round the world on stand-by alert than many Americans were asking whether the war scare was really necessary. Undoubtedly, most previous Presidents would have received wholehearted public backing, at least initially; as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said, it was a symptom of the times that Nixon did not. Instead, the suspicion arose that the President had overreacted to Soviet tough talk, either because his Watergate woes had impaired his judgment or because he wanted to divert public attention from them with a show of brinkmanship...
Watergate is America's Dreyfus Affair, a symptom of moral decay. During the Ervin hearings, Nixon aide after Nixon aide demonstrated to all the world the distance that has developed between the cause of the president of the United States and the cause of justice...