Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Imaginary friends are often seen as a symptom of some illness or malaise, and maybe sometimes they are," says author Ben Rice, whose 2000 novel, Pobby and Dingan, is based on his wife's childhood fantasy companions. "But I think sometimes they are just a creative outlet, a way of interpreting the world...
...Minutes after the President finished his speech, Ron Reagan-a de facto Dem since he spoke at the party's convention-was opining on MSNBC that the al-Souhail- Norwood hug was exploitative and staged. Others soon expressed similarly mingy thoughts. This was a symptom of a larger disease: most Democrats seemed as reluctant as Kerry to express the slightest hint of optimism about the elections. Congressional leaders Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi diminished themselves by staging an unnecessary pre-buttal and a misleading rebuttal to the President's speech...
...Turkey could create a new crisis for the U.S. in Iraq. Indeed, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that the U.S. would "pay the bill" for the disastrous consequences he warned would follow a Kurdish takeover of Kirkuk. The Economist sees the looming crisis over Kirkuk as another symptom of the trend of mainstream Kurdish political opinion toward a collision course with Bagdhdad...
...past year; 54% missed some school or day care; 62% had to limit their activities as a result of their condition. "With today's treatments," says Dr. William Sears, professor of pediatrics at the University of California at Irvine and a consultant in the study, "these kids should be symptom free most of the time...
...next time I visited that gallery, I realized that maybe Kline hadn’t really spoiled Pollock for me, and that to think so was merely the symptom of overly dogmatic thinking on my part. After all, Kline could only really spoil Pollock if they existed as two competing entities on the same spectrum of a single quality (in this case, base materiality). But of course the relationship between two works of art, let alone the works themselves, are never actually that simple. And indeed, on my next visit the Pollock no longer looked boring compared to the Kline...