Word: symptoms
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...significant chunk of the Bush vote, the favors Bill Clinton received in the Oval Office were merely a symptom. The disease was the "coarsening of the culture"--the fact that, with the release of the Starr report, fellatio and the creative use of tobacco products were now the subject of the nightly news. And they were right--Lewinskygate did affect the media's content standards--even if, to observers like me, frank, unembarrassed sex talk in public was a good thing. Leaders' examples matter, sniffed candidate Bush. On June 4, the appeals court concurred...
...years of teaching English, I have learned that plagiarism is a symptom of disengaged learning; inaccurate source citation; and poor reading, writing and organization skills. Teachers must demand not just the product but also the process by giving intellectually challenging assignments, monitoring progress and holding students accountable for their work. Furthermore, students must believe that teachers will help them become ethical, mature citizens and are not just out to catch instances of plagiarism, whether intentional or unintentional...
...change of heart is both a symptom and a cause of the hope that has settled over Northern Ireland - precisely because the new peace agreement has been brokered among the hardliners of both sides. The peace process had initially been built around moderate parties - David Trimble's Democratic Unionists and the Social Democratic Labor Party of John Hume - but voters from each community gradually opted to be represented at the negotiating table by tougher parties. A majority of Protestant voters thought Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party, which had rejected the earlier process, offered the best to chance to stop Sinn...
...permanent neighbors, who are not fortunate enough to be shielded by the motherly Harvard bubble. It makes car horns louder, brakes less effective, and everyone with a driver’s license forget chapters one through six of the Massachusetts Driver’s Manual. Its final symptom: an inexplicable and hell-bent desire to murder trepidatious pedestrians...
...Last fall, Open Face ’09, was preemptively diagnosed with genital herpes because it hurt when she peed. Pain during urination is a general symptom for seven types of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s), but when Face went in for a second opinion, the new nurse said to wait a week for the test results, and asked how well Face even knew “this...