Word: symptom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Snowe, the Maine Republican who serves on the Armed Services Committee, calls the report "a disturbing step backwards." Karen Johnson, a retired Air Force officer who is now a vice president of the National Organization for Women, said that "creating a two-tiered training system will focus on the symptom rather than the underlying problem--a military culture that values women less than men. If men and women do not train together from the beginning, how will they learn to respect each other as equals...
...still, because there was no public scrutiny of the iron triangle of bureaucrats, businessmen and bankers, the natural coziness that developed in that clique led inevitably to decisions based on personal relations. At best this was inefficient, at worst corrupt. The financial crisis facing Asia today is merely a symptom of a much deeper problem. The social and political assumptions on which the Asian model was founded are terribly outdated. The global economy is far too complex and fast paced for any bureaucrats to control. The only miracle in Asia is that this approach worked as long...
Sissela Bok, distinguished fellow of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, said she felt that the desire of people to die was a symptom of the inadequate care that the current medical system supplies. She cited a study asserting that, "70 percent of those polled would prefer palliative care to euthanasia...
...whole debate is a cry for help, a symptom," he said...
...even if this consideration is ignored, interior locks are not a solution to Harvard's security. problems. Putting all bathrooms under lock and key falls under the category of fixing the symptom, not the problem. If the Yard is to remain an open and public place, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) will have to be more aggressive keeping away those who do not belong...