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Today's group says the divestment issue does not elicit the same kind of response from students, who tend to see South Africa as an aberrant case rather than the symptom of a larger societal problem...
...budget deficit. It threatens to grow at the staggering annual rate of $200 billion for the rest of the decade. Attempts to slow down the borrowing, like the currently deadlocked budget negotiations in Congress, seem futile. The deficit, warns Manuel Johnson, assistant treasury secretary for economic policy, "is a symptom that Government is spending beyond its means. Ultimately, if it continues to do that, it will force the private sector to finance that spending by having to pay higher taxes or having to tolerate higher inflation or higher interest rates." The Constitution calls on the Federal Government % to provide...
...sure, there are those who feel that soccer violence is largely a symptom of deeper social and economic problems, perhaps even a direct result of Britain's 13.5% unemployment rate. In Liverpool, for example, 25% of the labor force is out of work. "We have football," says Psychologist Peter Marsh. "Other societies have street gangs." A 1980 study of soccer hooliganism in Britain found that four-fifths of those charged with soccer- related crimes were either unemployed or manual workers. Says Sociologist John Williams of the University of Leicester: "We must go into the community to find out why young...
...persons of Wally Worthington and Candy Kendall, a glittering couple who come to St. Cloud's for a familiar reason. Wally will someday inherit Ocean View Orchards, a thriving apple farm just off the Maine seacoast, and Candy will someday marry him, once Dr. Larch terminates the symptom of their careless passion...
...American public sculpture is in trouble, and it is, the response to Serra's work is not a cause but a symptom. Sculpture has largely lost the commemorative uses it had a century ago. It seems that Government bodies like the GSA think of it as a vague sort of visual fluoride. Its role has also withered as social compacts about the use of public space have been trashed. The aerosol valve has done for eyes in American cities what the suitcase radio has done for ears: civility dies before the corrosive jibber-jabber and the intrusive spray can. Graffiti...