Word: symptomized
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...appointment I did keep was with John Romero, co-founder of a company based in Mesquite, Texas, called Id Software, which created Doom. I called him at 2 p.m., as arranged, but he wasn't there. I recognized the symptom. Later Romero explained how he handled appointments while living in Doomspace: "I try not to make...
...country, almost without knowing where it was going, has wandered down unpaved roads that vanish into swampland. The Farrakhan march--warmhearted, festive, lovely in its way--was a sort of culminating symptom. On respectable op-ed pages, writers have been suggesting that we might as well consider breaking off part of the U.S. to form a separate Republic of African America. The arrangement would confirm a secession that has already occurred in millions of minds all over the country. The attitude is that it was a horrible marriage from the start and has long since dissolved in chronic dysfunction, occasional...
...words "nigger" and "bitch" is not, unfortunately, the only symptom of the self-destructive behavior displayed by these black racists. There is the victim ideology which saturates their culture. Poor and uneducated black men and women who can't find jobs tend to blame their lack of employment opportunity on the system, which they say is geared against the African-American race. Many African-Americans are wiling to work hard for their prosperity, but those lower class blacks who are residents in the inner-cities often fall into the trap of expecting help and therefore do not take it upon...
...most common response to Dole's argument is to view the debased content of American entertainment as a symptom, rather than a cause, of the nation's moral decay. As Frank Rich wrote in a recent opinion piece for the New York Times, "I'm no fan of dr. Dre...but I disagree with Mr. Dole's theory that ugly words are the causes, rather than the effects, of American pathologies...
...think that's a very specific issue that's a symptom of a city council that is ignoring the basic needs of the communities," Spampinato said...